And just to chime in here, I didn't use the Apple md5sum, but the TS recommended Windows version.
Joshua A. Richardson (703) 272-1761 -- Office (540) 383-9093 - Cell -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon "NeoAmsterdam" Levy Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 12:30 PM To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] YDL 5.0.1 on an Xserve (sub-topic: MD5) On May 25, 2007, at 9:04 AM, Derick Centeno wrote: > Regarding the md5sum, I hope that everyone is aware that within OS > X Tiger invoking the md5sum algorithm means: > > $md5 filename > > I don't know why Apple chose to do that; you should know however, > that they did. > > A discussion regarding these changes by Apple occurred on either > this or the newbie list a while back. I hope you didn't just refer to me as a "newbie" - I've been running YDL since 2.3 on 6360s, a G3 desktop, and a G4 TiBook. In any event, I remember the discussion 2007-04-13 vividly. Check this mailing list's archives for "[ydl-gen] [YDL5] Install DVD won't boot (bad media?) and related questions" and I believe you will find the following message (names removed to protect the guilty): >>> Remember that what Apple has done with open source is modify nearly >>> everything to it's taste. Apple's pdisk for example is probably not >>> able to see or read ext3 format which is the format used by YDL. >>> So the >>> above doesn't mean anything. Apple even entirely removed md5sum >>> from >>> Darwin, the open source or BSD component of OS X which is standard >>> everywhere else (in every other Unix). >>> >> >> With regards to MD5, I disagree fully. I checked my stash of YDL 4.1 >> ISOs against Argonne's and the MD5s match. Perhaps Apple's `md5` >> utility has changed somewhere in the past, but I can say with >> certainty that since 10.2.8 on forward `md5` works "as expected". >> Please `man md5`. >> > > I can also verify that Apple's md5 utility gives the identical > MD5 checksum as Linux's md5sum (just checked on MacOS X 10.4.9). > > And even if it didn't, you could always get the source to md5sum > and rebuild it on MacOS X. But you don't need to. - NeoAmsterdam _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
