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Re: pkg_info -X: Add FILE_CKSUM (sha256)



* On 2026-01-17 at 09:31 GMT, Benny Siegert wrote:

On Fri, 16 Jan 2026, Jonathan Perkin wrote:

* On 2026-01-16 at 19:16 GMT, Benny Siegert wrote:

This sounds to me as if the "machine-readable reports" that pbulk outputs, as well as the pkg summaries that pkgin downloads, are about to get 10x larger. I don't think this should be on by default.

FILE_CKSUM is only for the binary package file itself, not for every file in the package. Despite the hugely increased generation time, the output file is only around 6% larger, so that wouldn't be my primary concern.

OK, I misunderstood then. Does pkgin check the checksums? If so, having this would probably be beneficial, at least for the official binary package sets.

Not yet. Taylor has an open PR for this, but I owe him a review (I don't like making it an error for pkg_summary not to have checksums).

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