[arch-general] makepkg and md5/sha1/etc

[Evangelos Foutras]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
>> makepkg has support for using hashes besides md5, but is there a way to get
>> 'makepkg -g' to generate any hashes besides md5?
>
> makepkg generates checksums based on the hash algorithm used in the
> PKGBUILD. For example, if the PKGBUILD contains sha1sums, makepkg will
> also output sha1sums.

Oh, and if multiple sets of checksums (e.g.: md5sums and sha1sums) are
included in the PKGBUILD, makepkg will also output multiple sets of
(updated) checksums.