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

Adam Hani Schakaki krzd at krzd.net
Thu Jul 29 05:19:19 EDT 2010


  Am 29.07.2010 11:16, schrieb 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.
is there a way to replace the old sum with the new sum with makepkg -g? 
e.g. somewhere in there middle in the PKGBUILD is md5sums = OLD and i 
want it updated there. if i would do makepkg -g >> PKGBUILD, i would 
have it double.


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