Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (579 mails)

[Joachim Werner <joe@xxxxxxx>]

Hi!

> > > > <data type="patches">
> > > >   <location href="repodata/patches.xml"/>
> > > >   <checksum
> > > > type="sha">90ac427749079973d044a9398d6749f5f008</checksum>
> > > > <timestamp>1144088097</timestamp>
> > > >   <open-checksum type="sha">90ac4044a9398d6749f5f008</open-checksum>
> > > >   </data>
> > >
> > > I think there is a slight difference between "SHA" and "SHA-1" ;-)
> >
> > Checksums that have the type="sha" (as opposed to "md5" in repomd files
> > are SHA-1 checksums. They do not use the original (now considered
> > insecure) SHA.
>
> What I mean to say is: Shouldn't ``type="sha1"'' be used instead?

Yes, it should. But we didn't write that part of the YUM format, so we have to 
keep "sha" to stay compatible for now. ;-)

> Regards,
> Ulrich
> P.S. Unable to get any mirror server for 10.0 YOU for several minutes here.
> Known problem?

Is this fixed now?

Cheers

Joachim

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Joachim Werner <joe@xxxxxxx>
Project Manager Contracts, Migration, SDK
Novell, Linux R&D Nuernberg