[Yum] PATCH: handle more checksum in repomd file

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Miroslav Suchý wrote:

> During the work on Spacewalk I tried to create repomd.xml file with more 
> checksums in that file. See:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-devel/2009-June/msg00021.html
> for more info. But it's safe to skip.
>
> But it takes only few moments that I find in yum code, that yum will pickup 
> only last checksum it will find... :(
>
> So I created patch for yum which will pickup only checksums, which are known 
> to yum.

So - first:
in what situation is it useful for the two systems which cannot read both 
types of checksums to read a single repo?

do you have a repo that is used by both f11 and el5 systems at the same 
time? If so - why not just use createrepo -s sha to generate those repos?

alternatively, installing python-hashlib from epel on el5 systems allows 
yum to handle the sha256 checksums fine.


>
> See attachment.
> Can you please review it and if find appropriate, merge to git?
>

Can you explain, again, what benefit we get from this?

-sv