Re: sha==sha1 (was: -s/--checksum deprecated)
Jeff Johnson <[email protected]>
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On Apr 18, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 03:16:45PM -0400, James Antill wrote: >> 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? > > The rationale was part of the trimmed away parts of my mail. :) > > But here it goes again: All generated metadata before F11 have had or > still have "sha" instead of "sha1". Therefore some tools hardcoded > "sha" into their parsing/checksumming parts. I know smart has this > problem, and quite likely apt as well. W/o the patch `createrepo -s > sha ...' breaks. Η χρησιμοποίηση του sha αντί sha1 περπατά προς τα πίσω το intoi το μέλλον. 73 de Jeff _______________________________________________ Rpm-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-metadata