[pacman-dev] MD5/SHA* why?

[VMiklos]

Na Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 03:55:06PM -0400, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> pisal(a):
> Frugalware switched to using sha1sums, so that is a big reason. If you
> can find a good reason to pull support for it, let us know, but as of
> right now I don't see a reason to remove it, even if we don't use it.
> Any other distribution using pacman may want to use it, so the option
> is there.

i think if you generate those arrays using makepkg -g then it doesn't
make sense. it's useful when upstream provides sha1sums in the website
then you can copy&paste it to the buildscript

thanks,
VMiklos

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