Unused hashes from distinfo files

Edwin Groothuis edwin at mavetju.org
Wed Jun 20 12:17:21 UTC 2007


On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 02:08:48PM +0200, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
> there are RMD160 and SHA1 hashes in some ports' distinfo files. 
> Considering, that
> 1, these kind of hashes were never official
> 2, there's no PR for adding support for them

$ SHA1=`which sha1` RMD160=`which rmd160` CHECKSUM_ALGORITHMS="rmd160 md5 sha256 sha1" make checksum

(yes, we have a more-or-less pluggable checksum mechanism :-)

> 3, SHA256 should be storng enough according to RMD160 and SHA1

Specially in combination with SIZE.

Go for them (he said without any hats)

Edwin
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