Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH 2/2] makepkg: add new checksum algorithm via coreutils b2sum

On 16/2/19 2:38 am, Eli Schwartz wrote:

coreutils 8.26 in December 2016 added this new hashing method which is compatible with the existing md5sum and sha*sum tool usage, while using the blake2 hash algorithm.

makepkg uses coreutils to provide source file integrity checks via ${integ}sum binaries and it makes sense to offer this as an additional option.

Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz ---

Is there many open-source projects providing b2 checksums for their source files? My opinion with checksums remains that they are only as good as the source you download them from. If you have to generate them locally, they are already far from idea. This is why md5sum will remain the default in pacman (unless we implement crc32...). A