[arch-dev-public] sha1sums in PKGBUILDs

[Allan McRae]

Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Thayer Williams <thayer at archlinux.org> wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Thayer Williams <thayer at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Tonight I noticed the presence of sha1sums in a couple of PKGBUILDs I
>>>> adopted.  Are we adopting a new policy toward sha1sums?  Did I miss
>>>> the memo?
>>>>         
>>> Which packages? I think it's technically fine as long as the md5sums
>>> are still there. If it's just sha1sums then I think the previous
>>> maintainer may have been feeling frisky
>>>       
>> They did contain both types of hashes...I believe it was streamripper
>> and numlockx. So it was just a case of someone thinking of future
>> validation methods?
>>     
>
> Well, I believe makepkg checks both if they both exist. It was someone
> being absolutely certain that the file is what we say it is 8)
>
>   

In fact you can have all of md5, sha1, sha256, sha384 and sha512 sums 
and they will all be checked by makepkg.