[OE-core] [PATCH] image_types: use compress framework to produce checksums for images

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 08:53:29PM +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 10 April 2016 at 19:49, Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org> wrote:
> 
> > BTW, at least for md5sum (not sure about sha*), isn't the de-facto standard
> > extension .md5 and not .md5sum? Can we change it?
> 
> Picking a random upstream (https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.10/)
> shows that GNOME used .md5sum until they migrated over to sha256sum, so I'm
> not sure there's a de-facto standard as two equally reasonable options.

Hmm, ok. I guess with the migration to sha256sum, it's becoming to provide 
multiple checksum files and I see more uses of .md5sum extension now. Never 
mind, I'll update my infrastructure from the old .md5 days... :)

-- 
Denys