Re: [Bug] Re3gression in setup handling of SHA512 checksum failures

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 3/20/2018 4:11 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Ken Brown writes:
> > I'll look into both of these issues, unless Jon beats me to it.
>
> Thanks.
>
> > By the way, this only affects local installs.  For network installs,
> > the hash gets checked at an earlier stage.
>
> That's correct.  I forgot to mention that, but all my installs are from
> a local mirror (necessary due to the way network access is restricted at
> my workplace)

I haven't been able to come up with a safe way to recover from a 
checksum error at this point, at least not without a lot of work.  I 
propose that we just bail out with an appropriate error message in this 
situation.

Patch attached.

Ken

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