"port -d extract" still returns md5 checksum

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sun Jun 19 04:43:19 PDT 2011


On 2011-6-19 21:37 , Marko Käning wrote:
>> No, existing use of md5 will continue to work for a long time. Using md5
>> isn't a problem, not using anything else is. Using md5 alone should
>> probably become an error in a future version.
> OK
> 
>> The "correct checksum line may be" message when the checksums don't
>> match just uses whatever types are defined in the portfile, unless there
>> are none, in which case it suggests two default types, neither of which
>> is md5.
> I see. Since the ports in question had two checksums neither of which was md5 as a consequence md5 was suggested by port. ;-)

What I wrote applies to trunk/2.0, if you're using 1.9 it might still
suggest md5 all the time, I forget.

- Josh


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