[72523] trunk/dports/net

Blair Zajac blair at orcaware.com
Tue Oct 19 14:03:31 PDT 2010


On 10/19/2010 01:29 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2010, at 14:19, Anders F Björklund wrote:
>
>> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>>>>> +checksums	md5 adfd092d7cd45c9797105e433662591f
>>>>>
>>>>> Should use multiple checksums.
>>>>
>>>>  From the macports svn ? I suppose it could, but...
>>>
>>> I think it's a security measure we want every port to exemplify.
>>
>> And you still want to use both sha1/rmd160 rather
>> than just sha256, right ? (In addition to the md5.)
>
> As I update ports I have been using sha1 and rmd160 only. I've been removing md5 on the theory that it is obsolete and needn't be used for anything anymore, and sha256 is not yet in a released version of MacPorts.

Keeping the MD5 is useful if upstream provides an MD5 of the 
download(s), so I wouldn't remove them unless upstream doesn't provide one.

Blair



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