[Rpm-metadata] sha==sha1 (was: -s/--checksum deprecated)

[Jeff Johnson]

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