Re: sha==sha1 (was: -s/--checksum deprecated)

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 03:38:39PM -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>
> 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.

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