Re: pkg_info -X: Add FILE_CKSUM (sha256)

Jonathan Perkin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.packages
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* On 2026-01-16 at 19:16 GMT, Benny Siegert wrote:

>This sounds to me as if the "machine-readable reports" that pbulk 
>outputs, as well as the pkg summaries that pkgin downloads, are about 
>to get 10x larger. I don't think this should be on by default.

FILE_CKSUM is only for the binary package file itself, not for every 
file in the package.  Despite the hugely increased generation time, the 
output file is only around 6% larger, so that wouldn't be my primary 
concern.

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