On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Graham Leggett wrote:
The huge benefit of this format is that the binaries can then be checked
with same tools (option -c).
With the downside that what you propose only works on Linux.
Rather, it only works on platforms where md5sum/sha1sum is installed.
Don't confuse the OS platform with installed software (we see enough
of that in the configure scripts of the world already ;).
The solutions I see are:
- Require md5sum/sha1sum (best IMHO, it can't be THAT hard do install
on macosx).
- Fallback on openssl but mangle the files to be md5sum/sha1sum style
(I'm blatantly assuming that the checksums are the same here).
As we have shipped with md5sum/sha1sum-style checksum files in the
past we should continue to do so, but I think it should be formalized
to avoid this confusion in the future.
Now, I should find some time to actually test the beast before I go
away for the weekend :/
/Nikke
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