[pacman-dev] [PATCH 2/2] makepkg: add CRC checksums and set these to be the default

[Allan McRae]

On 25/1/20 12:19 am, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote:
> Em janeiro 24, 2020 1:56 Allan McRae escreveu:
>>
>> Well...  we hope that no-one will ever use this algorithm!
>>
> 
> Then why waste everyone's time going through this process of adding it?

Because I consider people to be delusional who use "makepkg -g" and
think their checksums are fine.  I find trust on first use ignorant in
terms of software downloads.  That is reflected in my decision to
include CRC and add it as the default, so PKGBUILDs from people who add
checksums without thinking will be visible.

Even then, the CRC checksum will only be used by "makepkg -g" if there
is no other checksums in a PKGBUILD.  So only a portion of the blind
trust will be visible.

Allan