basic gentoo question

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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That command would verify the gpg signature of the .iso file itself yes,
provided that you have the .iso and the .iso.asc or .iso.sig file in the
same directory. If you wanna compute the digests listed in the .digests
file you need to use the md5sum and sha1sum programs and do it by hand.
Joe

Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Those iso's on the gentoo.org site have contents and digests files tat 
> accompany them.  To attempt a proper iso image download would the gpg -v 
> livecdxxx.iso command be all that's needed provided the contents and 
> digests are also in the same directory? I know for sure I've downloaded 
> bad gentoo images given media errors that always happen when trying an 
> installation, I just want to be certain what I do to verify images before 
> installation is the right procedure.
> 
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