1

Topic: MD5 checksums

If I were downloading an ISO file containered in a .ZIP file, its integrity on extract would tell me I'd downloaded a good file.  If I were able to download it using a .torrent file, again, its completed arrival would ensure a clean copy.

Why isn't something of this nature done as a matter of course, or am I missing it?

Many thanks, great program and live-CD!!

2

Re: MD5 checksums

MD5 and SHA1 checksum information for the .iso and .zip files is available through the links on the download page:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

Hope that helps.  smile

3

Re: MD5 checksums

NOTICE:  The following information is categorically NOT - I repeat, *NOT* - intended to be considered a criticism of, nor slight, insult or ridicule of the status quo with respect to the GPartEd SourceForge web page, project, moderators, developers or contributors, but, if anything, to make clear my new arrival here, and my confusion and challenge in getting what I've found to be a very good product, in a manner I can rely on.

(Continued from the previous message...)  Well, I clicked on your link, and the only .MD5 in the "(checksums info)" link for "Browse Stable releases of GParted Live here" is the MD5 checksum for gparted-live-0.4.6-1.iso (and its corresponding .zip file).  It *does* say "releaseS" (emphasis on the terminal 's', with its connotation of plurality, as in, all of the above, perhaps?)  And *NOT*, I might add, for the gparted-live-0.4.6-3 indicated by a large green button for immediate download upon arrival at the GPartEd SourceForge page, but an entirely different one.

If I could find a simple FTP repository of all of these files, I'd expect to find an all-encompassing MD5SUMS file there, maybe...  Or individual ones, perhaps?  Haven't found one yet.

Imagine if they were included in the "View All Files" listing, alongside each relevant release - where people COULDN'T POSSIBLY MISS them?!

*THEN*, I clicked on the  "(checksums info)" link for "Browse latest Testing releases of GParted Live here", and, lo and behold, THERE is the MD5 checksum set for not only the 0.4.6-3 release, but the 0.4.6-2 release (??).

So *NOW* I can conclude that the 0.4.6-3 release with the big green button on the main GPartEd page is a TESTING version, despite NOTHING indicating that it is ANYTHING OTHER than a "release" version.

But I have some earlier versions, and also want to be able to establish their integrity as well.  Specifically:

gparted-live-0.3.9-4.iso
gparted-live-0.3.7-7.iso

Not to belabour the point any further, I consider it entirely too well-flogged already, but could you possibly direct me to MD5 checksums for both of these, please?

And to all who advance this project, keep up the good work - I consider it (in my limited experience) the flagship of purpose-based Linux distributions, and, despite dramatic changes, from one environment to another, GPartEd invariably shines through.

And, I might add, displays the stable flexibility and robust maturity that is SO Linux - or rather, GNU/Linux (after all...!)

Many thanks,
Bob.  <^8#

4

Re: MD5 checksums

The GParted project encourages users to work with the newest version of GParted.  smile

GParted application source code versions are in the form X.Y.Z (e.g., 0.4.6).
GParted Live distribution versions are in the form X.Y.Z-W (e.g., 0.4.6-3).

The older versions of GParted Live distributions have been moved into a folder called OldFiles.

A few months ago Source Forge made significant changes to how file downloads work.  In the prior version it was easy to attach release notes and checksums to the file download section.  To view the notes, one must click on the icon (a page with writing and a blue pen) in the Notes/Subscribe section.  Since the SF change, this icon and the method of populating the information has changed, and does not work as well in my opinion.

For an example of old releases of GParted Live, see:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted … es/0.3.7-7
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted … es/0.3.9-4

For an example of an old release of the GParted application source code, see:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted … rted-0.4.5

For an example of a recent release of the GParted application source code, see:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted … rted-0.4.6

Notice the difference between 0.4.5 and 0.4.6.