Thanks Daniel, I guess that does make sense, I've never seen checksums as
anything other than "they match so the download isnt corrupted", never used
it for authenticity :)


On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> wrote:

> On 7/21/25 22:55, Nick Edwards wrote:
> > All good on gentoo
> >
> > Also, can I ask why, and this is a long time problem, the sigs dont make
> > it to wherever rsync lives?
> > Any chance this can get fixed?
> > I have over time emailed infra twice ( probably 6 months apart) but get
> > no response, probably because i'm not with ASF so they junk it.
> > Sure this is not the development but "release" where I think more
> > important :)   Yes, the sigs are as Rainer points out, in the dev.
>
> The checksum/signature files have historically been omitted from the
> mirror system, and will continue to be omitted in the foreseeable future.
>
> This is to force users to only verify against signatures and checksums
> from trusted apache.org sources where we can vouch for the authenticity
> of those files, especially the less secure checksum files.
>
> Work is underway on a brand new distribution system that will better
> address modern requirements like CRA/CISA policies, but in the meantime,
> users will still need to verify against signatures and checksums from
> trusted sources.
>
> >
> > rsync -v rsync.apache.org::apache-dist/httpd/
> > receiving file list ... done
> > drwxrwxr-x          4,096 2025/07/11 11:21:36 .
> > -rw-rw-r--          3,994 2014/09/03 05:17:36 .htaccess
> > -rw-rw-r--          3,880 2025/07/10 21:37:55 Announcement2.4.html
> > -rw-rw-r--          2,515 2025/07/10 21:37:55 Announcement2.4.txt
> > -rw-rw-r--        383,176 2025/07/11 11:21:28 CHANGES_2.4
> > -rw-rw-r--          9,015 2025/07/11 11:21:28 CHANGES_2.4.64
> > -rw-rw-r--              0 2025/07/10 21:57:02 CURRENT-IS-2.4.64
> > -rw-rw-r--            458 2024/07/18 04:03:46 HEADER.html
> > -rw-rw-r--          2,073 2024/07/18 03:55:16 README.html
> > -rw-rw-r--      7,293,281 2025/07/10 21:37:55 httpd-2.4.64.tar.bz2
> > -rw-rw-r--      9,590,595 2025/07/10 21:37:55 httpd-2.4.64.tar.gz
> > -rw-rw-r--         19,006 2016/12/22 06:14:45 httpd_logo_wide_new.png
> > drwxrwxr-x          4,096 2022/06/17 21:25:12 binaries
> > drwxrwxr-x          4,096 2022/06/17 21:25:19 docs
> > drwxrwxr-x          4,096 2022/08/25 23:10:44 libapreq
> > drwxrwxr-x          4,096 2022/06/17 21:25:19 mod_fcgid
> > drwxrwxr-x          4,096 2022/06/17 21:25:19 mod_ftp
> > drwxrwxr-x          4,096 2023/04/11 09:12:00 patches
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com
> > <mailto:cove...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi all,
> >
> >     Please find below the proposed release tarball and signatures:
> >
> >     https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/httpd/ <https://
> >     dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/httpd/>
> >
> >     I would like to call a VOTE over the next few days to release
> >     this candidate tarball httpd-2.4.65-rc3 as 2.4.65:
> >     [ ] +1: It's not just good, it's good enough!
> >     [ ] +0: Let's have a talk.
> >     [ ] -1: There's trouble in paradise. Here's what's wrong.
> >
> >     The computed digests of the tarball up for vote are:
> >     sha256:
> 4f92861a50325c6d1046ebad5d814bff0d4169ada8cc265655f32b7f1ba4be1b
> >     *httpd-2.4.65-rc3.tar.gz
> >     sha512:
> >
>  
> b5824f85481e8617c35bd9da9ee5d933d6d744646e84ebf0471f87e4075f48c6f6f2b38f8234ad63ecc2816cad389c356cad574bc44d4fa7999ecf7579e24c1e
> >     *httpd-2.4.65-rc3.tar.gz
> >
> >     The candidate source is found at
> >     <https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/tags/2.4.65-rc3-
> >     candidate <https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/tags/2.4.65-
> >     rc3-candidate>>
> >     and at <https://github.com/apache/httpd/tree/2.4.65-rc3-candidate
> >     <https://github.com/apache/httpd/tree/2.4.65-rc3-candidate>>.
> >
> >     --
> >     Eric Covener
> >     cove...@gmail.com <mailto:cove...@gmail.com>
> >
>
>

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