Re: -s/--checksum deprecated

On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 11:56 +0300, Axel Thimm wrote:

> It works with '-s sha1', thanks! I checked it with RHEL5 clients,
> e.g. yum-3.2.19-18.el5.
> 
> It bails out in yum/misc.py when using '-s sha' (which yum maps
> internally onto sha1).

 Yum does the mapping for misc.checksum(), which is what the package
hash checking uses, because as you say it is part of the metadata std.
that sha == sha1.
 But do we really want to spread this around? Why do you want to use it?

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