Let's avoid using md5 as checksum
Rainer Müller
raimue at macports.org
Sat Feb 16 05:29:29 PST 2008
Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Of course, this won't make Rainer happy. :-)
>
> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/browser/trunk/dports/
> editors/vim/files/patchlist?rev=34037
>
> Look at all them pretty md5s...
These md5s are released upstream [1] and I just use them. Of course I
now could also generate additional sha1 and rmd160 checksums. But for
what purpose? The upstream authors consider md5 to be safe enough for
verification of the patch files.
Rainer
[1] ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.1/MD5SUMS
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