[pacman-dev] #10530: checksum verification does not work on BSD

[Xavier]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Antonio Huete Jimeenz
<ahuete.devel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As far as I know md5sum program in BSD is /sbin/md5, so maybe there's
> something like that in MacOS.
> I'll provide a makepkg during this week that would fix this md5 checksum
> thingy among other things, so you can take a look to it and let me know if
> it works.
>
> I got some other ideas for handling different OSes via CHOST variable. Let
> me few days to test it.
>

Actually, it is better to avoid this when possible.
The openssl solution is very nice and clean because it works the same
on all systems. You don't need any specific checks.