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

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2020-03-03 at 09:56 +0200, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> 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?

Yes, that is the intent/plan. We don't really need both and this
usability fix is a good opportunity to rationalise what we're doing.

Cheers,

Richard