Folding Forum

@JimboPalmer - It would appear that you are the developer's manager. It is not my intention to distract the developer from the work that you've assigned him/her. @bruce - You've added no value to this conversation. Your solution of the user verifying the checksums through multiple downloads is nonse...

@gbowman, Doesn't the development team use automated build tools such as Jenkins? After putting together the several lines of code to generate and publish a checksum during a build, there is no bandwidth required on subsequent builds. Better yet, create a pgp keypair (done once), publish the public ...

The following is for FAH development staff (do not respond to this comment unless you are on the FAH development staff because it will add little value): I would urge you to reconsider your position as articulated by @bruce above as the assumptions made by your staff are in error. The following exam...

@foldy, That is simple not just the only use case nor the reason why checksums are used. Otherwise it would be the case, for example, that he linux kernel developers (https://www.kernel.org/) are wasting their time signing packages downloaded from their servers. There are many packages that are uplo...

@MeeLee, @Joe_H, While Windows users may not use checksums to verify their packages, Linux users do and it is standard practice. Downloading from FAH servers does not guarantee the package integrity which is the purpose of checksums/package signing. It appears that there is a lack of understanding o...

@MeeLee The purpose of checksums is to verify the integrity of the file and is unrelated to the size of the file.

Does anyone with the folding team know where these checksums are? I would like to support but will not run unverified packages.

Where are the linux, specifically debian, install package checksums?