[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] fetch2: Limit shown checksums to sha256

Tanu Kaskinen tanuk at iki.fi
Tue Mar 3 07:56:29 UTC 2020


On Sat, 2020-02-29 at 16:16 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> Currently bitbake will list many checksums for a recipe when none are
> present, encouraging users to add them all to a recipe. We don't
> need/want them all.
> 
> We used to show md5 and sha256 but given the concerns about md5,
> switch to showing just sha256 going forward which seems like the
> sensible one to standardise upon.

Should this be interpreted so that going forward, it's recommended to
drop the md5 checksums from recipes when doing version upgrades?

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