[oe] patch: shasum vs. sha256sum

pHilipp Zabel philipp.zabel at gmail.com
Mon Apr 2 09:44:08 UTC 2007


On 4/2/07, Tom Walsh <tom at openhardware.net> wrote:
> Just noticed that the sha256sum has been added to the
> classes/sanity.bbclass and bitbake balked at running.   This morning I
> had installed perl-Digest::SHA to satisfy the need for 'shasum'.
>
> I haven't found any package on Mandriva that provides 'sha256sum',
> however, adding '-a 256' sets the sha256 algorithm for shasum?  With
> these two changes, bitbake seems to build the project ok, or, am I
> missing something here?

sha256sum is a part of coreutils (in debian).
I assumed it to be more common than the perl shasum utility that is
hidden in perl-Digest::SHA.

regards
Philipp




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