Checksum libraries

[Joshua Root]

On 2011-4-15 21:07 , Rainer Müller wrote:
> On 04/15/2011 11:29 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote:
>> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>>> Since some people want to run MacPorts mirrors on Linux,
>>>> I re-added the support for using libcrypto for checksums.
>>>
>>> Thanks! I like increased platform-independence. :)
>>
>> Make no mistake, MacPorts is still highly platform-dependent,
>> both by choice and by accident. There was a (partial) effort
>> to have MacPorts 1.6.0 be portable and run on multiple platforms,
>> including FreeBSD, and even Fedora (Linux) and Ubuntu (Linux)...
> 
> Actually some of the mirror administrators run MacPorts on Linux to
> fetch distfiles from all available sources.

That's what prompted the application of this patch. Most Linux distros
apparently don't have a libmd package.

- Josh