Subject: Re: pkg checksum [was: Re: pkgsrc reorg II [was: Re: port2pkg and new FreeBSD port layout]]
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Dominik Rothert <dr@astorit.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/28/2000 22:49:37
Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de> wrote:

> No, that's by far not enough. Have a look at the pkg_* source.

Ah, okay, I forgot about maintaining. 

[...]

>  * in what form you want to use SHA1 on systems that don't come
>    with openssl in-tree.
>  * How to retain backward compatibility with existing binary packages

For that purpose we should consider using both, MD5 _and_ SHA1
hashes for a period of time.

-Dominik

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