[pacman-dev] [PATCH 2/2] makepkg: add new checksum algorithm via coreutils b2sum

[Allan McRae]

On 16/2/19 2:38 am, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> coreutils 8.26 in December 2016 added this new hashing method which is
> compatible with the existing md5sum and sha*sum tool usage, while using
> the blake2 hash algorithm.
> 
> makepkg uses coreutils to provide source file integrity checks via
> ${integ}sum binaries and it makes sense to offer this as an additional
> option.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz at archlinux.org>
> ---

Is there many open-source projects providing b2 checksums for their
source files?

My opinion with checksums remains that they are only as good as the
source you download them from.  If you have to generate them locally,
they are already far from idea.  This is why md5sum will remain the
default in pacman (unless we implement crc32...).

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