[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: Fix whirlpoolsums support

Luke Shumaker lukeshu at lukeshu.com
Mon Aug 27 21:45:53 UTC 2018


On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 16:17:31 -0400,
Eli Schwartz wrote:
> Huh, and we never documented that we supported it in the first place. :/

It did show up in the NEWS file, but no where else.

> No wonder we didn't notice that this would break, and, equally, no
> wonder users didn't hit this in the 2.5 years since 5.0.0 was tagged...
> 
> But, if we're going to support whirlpool then that means, going against
> the original intent of the patch which broke this, that we now need the
> openssl command-line tool even if built --with-crypto=nettle, because it
> doesn't look like nettle supports whirlpool any more than base64.

It should only need the openssl command-line tool if it's actually
going to use whirlpool for a given PKGBUILD (i.e., and optdepend at
best).

-- 
Happy hacking,
~ Luke Shumaker


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