[aur-general] requesting a critique for my build of xen-git-4.5.0-rc3

Florian Bruhin me at the-compiler.org
Tue Dec 16 09:05:38 UTC 2014


* Robert Mackanics <schnoopay at gmx.com> [2014-12-16 03:42:51 -0500]:
> On Monday, December 15, 2014 16:54:04 Marcel Korpel wrote:
> > Third, don't use md5sums to check file integrity; to avoid collisions,
> > it is recommended that you use sha256sums. You can set this
> > in /etc/makepkg.conf (and then you can use updpkgsums to generate them).
> 
> Should we have the makepkg.conf in the pacman package changed to sha256? Seems 
> like a good idea that shouldn't bite anybody.

I submitted a patch and it was declined:

https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2014-June/019081.html
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2014-June/019083.html
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2014-June/019084.html

Florian

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