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Date:      Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:17:19 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Unused hashes from distinfo files
Message-ID:  <20070620121719.GB1558@k7.mavetju>
In-Reply-To: <467918D0.3040900@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <467918D0.3040900@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 02:08:48PM +0200, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
> there are RMD160 and SHA1 hashes in some ports' distinfo files. 
> Considering, that
> 1, these kind of hashes were never official
> 2, there's no PR for adding support for them

$ SHA1=`which sha1` RMD160=`which rmd160` CHECKSUM_ALGORITHMS="rmd160 md5 sha256 sha1" make checksum

(yes, we have a more-or-less pluggable checksum mechanism :-)

> 3, SHA256 should be storng enough according to RMD160 and SHA1

Specially in combination with SIZE.

Go for them (he said without any hats)

Edwin
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