On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
It's not so much a preference as it is the fact that we won't be gaining much, if anything, from this change, and the change is going to take work. Making announcements, changing the official repos over, dealing with bug reports, etc etc... it's just work that seems like it's for naught.
You wouldn't have to change anything at all except for the INTEGRITY_CHECK array in makepkg.conf. After the patch that Dan mentioned has been pushed, current users won't have problems (no matter what combination of checksums are present in a PKGBUILD), so the usage of sha256sums would gradually occur as packages are updated naturally. That's why I specifically said it would be best to make the change after pacman 3.0 has been released. There's no reason you'd have to go through the repos and make a sweeping update. -- Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer