[Yum] PATCH: handle more checksum in repomd file

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Miroslav Suchý wrote:

>
>> For spacewalk just default to sha or md5, and
>> a way to change it ... and use that change on the official servers.
>
> No way. Sorry. But if yum do not see this as benefit, we will have to solve 
> this ourself in yum-rhn-plugin.

This is not a wise move. It is VASTLY easier to get el5 systems to have 
python-hashlib than it is to hack around all of this in yum-rhn-plugin.

-sv