[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] [packages] opkg: Make opkg understand old md5

[Michal Hrusecky]

John Crispin - 11:14 25.02.16 wrote:
> 
> 
> On 25/02/2016 11:13, Michal Hrusecky wrote:
> > Felix Fietkau - 10:22 25.02.16 wrote:
> >> On 2016-02-25 10:05, Michal Hrusecky wrote:
> >>> Opkg now uses sha256 by default and expects them. Making it understand md5s also
> >>> and detect md5 sum so we can migrate from configuration that used md5.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Michal Hrusecky <Michal.Hrusecky at nic.cz>
> >> OpenWrt itself does not support incremental upgrades of the system via
> >> opkg, so we're not going to re-enable md5 support by default again.
> >>
> >> Can't you simply update your package lists to include both md5sum and
> >> sha256, making this patch unnecessary?
> > 
> > Not really, because I'm doing incremental update :-)
> > 
> >> If not, you could submit a patch that makes md5 support optional (and
> >> disabled by default).
> > 
> > In patch it is optional and just uses md5 if hash found is not long enough to
> > be sha providing backward functionality without changing default behaviour. And
> > it is conditional. So I'll just disable it by default and that should take of
> > it. Anything else before I resubmit?
> 
> enabling md5 should be a compile time option. i do not want md5 support
> compiled into opkg by default.
> 

Ok, will try to figure out how menus and config work and will put it behind
config.
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