Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2020-06-28 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 wontfix Dimitri John Ledkov: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:29:39 -0800 Ryan Niebur wrote: >> [despite having not yet replied to this thread, I am watching it...I >> just don't have the desire to add to yet another giant, silly thread on >> -devel. anyways...] >> >> On Mon, Mar 08,

Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2020-06-12 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:29:39 -0800 Ryan Niebur wrote: > [despite having not yet replied to this thread, I am watching it...I > just don't have the desire to add to yet another giant, silly thread on > -devel. anyways...] > > On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 12:21:42PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > >

Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 12:59:00PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be writes: Find a patch attached, for a smooth transition from DEBIAN/md5sums to a recent checksum. The way it is implemented, is that the dh_md5sums is a symlink to the new dh_checksums. The new

Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-10 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 17:36 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 20:08 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: Frank Lin PIAT wrote: What about a transitional dh_md5sums that would produce md5sum AND invoke dh_sha ? Or call it dh_checksums or something so we don't have

Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-10 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 23:19 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: Hello, On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 17:36 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 20:08 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: Frank Lin PIAT wrote: What about a transitional dh_md5sums that would produce md5sum AND invoke

Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-10 Thread Ryan Niebur
[despite having not yet replied to this thread, I am watching it...I just don't have the desire to add to yet another giant, silly thread on -devel. anyways...] On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 12:21:42PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Your comments on the patch are obviously welcome (feel free to hack

Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
retitle 540215 Introduce dh_checksums tag 540215 +patch thanks On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 20:08 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: Frank Lin PIAT wrote: What about a transitional dh_md5sums that would produce md5sum AND invoke dh_sha ? Or call it dh_checksums or something so we don't have to

Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-08 Thread Joey Hess
Frank Lin PIAT wrote: Note regarding the patch: I have tried to make the patch so it isn't too intrusive (for instance, dh_checksums is a symlink to dh_md5sums even though it should be the other way around). Symlink direction seems irrelevant. I'd probably just make dh_md5sums call

Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 12:21 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Frank Lin PIAT wrote: Note regarding the patch: I have tried to make the patch so it isn't too intrusive (for instance, dh_checksums is a symlink to dh_md5sums even though it should be the other way around). Symlink direction

Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be writes: Find a patch attached, for a smooth transition from DEBIAN/md5sums to a recent checksum. The way it is implemented, is that the dh_md5sums is a symlink to the new dh_checksums. The new helper computes both md5sum (for compatibility/transition) and a new

Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 12:59 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be writes: Find a patch attached, for a smooth transition from DEBIAN/md5sums to a recent checksum. The way it is implemented, is that the dh_md5sums is a symlink to the new dh_checksums. The new helper

Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be writes: On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 12:59 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: 1. Strengthen the integrity check so that it could potentially be useful for security purposes as well as for simple integrity checking. Yes, this is the intended goal. Imagine the following