On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Robin H. Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 02:45:02PM -0700, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
>> I checked
>> <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=5>
>> and the Handbook only mentions validating MD5 checksums.
>>
>> There are two possible issues:
>>
>> 1. Why are we using _only_ MD5 and SHA1 as the checksums? Shouldn't we
>> be using something stronger?
> Fixed in Catalyst now.
> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/catalyst.git;a=commit;h=42b4f6608682cf03954918ecce7923330a1656fe
> So when the stagebuilders update their Catalyst, they will be generated
> with newer hashes.

Well, almost.

The changes you made are in the master branch (for catalyst-3), but
since catalyst-3 isn't really going anywhere fast, you should
cherry-pick your patches back to the catalyst_2 branch so they'll be
available in the next 2.0.6.919 release.

Matt

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