[asterisk-dev] Additional release checksums?

[Ben Langfeld]

If everything went in one checksum file, how would one (or shasum) tell
each of the checksums apart?

I'll submit a patch to mkrelease for the extra files.


On 21 December 2013 22:57, Matthew Jordan <mjordan at digium.com> wrote:

>
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Paul Belanger <
> paul.belanger at polybeacon.com> wrote:
>
>> On 13-12-21 11:04 AM, Ben Langfeld wrote:
>>
>>> Congrats to all on the 12 release yesterday. There's some excellent work
>>> that's gone into that release and we're all very grateful and excited
>>> about
>>> using it.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, Chef only currently supports SHA-256 checksums of
>>> downloaded
>>> files. This means that in order to properly release new builds of
>>> Asterisk
>>> to my machines, I need to manually download the release, verify the SHA1,
>>> generate a SHA-256, feed this to Chef and converge.
>>>
>>> There's work underway on Chef to support other checksum types, but it
>>> might
>>> be helpful regardless for Asterisk to include other checksum types. Would
>>> it be a lot of work to add at least SHA-256, if not MD5 as well, to the
>>> release process?
>>>
>>>  The build script for asterisk releases are located in repotools[1], so
>> adding support should be a matter of just submitting a patch to the tracker.
>>
>> [1] http://svnview.digium.com/svn/repotools/
>>
>
> It's pretty trivial to update mkrelease and releaser to create a new
> checksum file using sha256sum/md5sum.
>
> The question is: if we're going to generate three checksums, is it
> worthwhile to put them all into a single checksum file? Or do we want three
> separate files?
>
> Going the separate file approach would end up generating 6 files per
> release (3 for the release, 3 for the patch), times 3 supported release
> branches. Not that it would take up a lot of disk space, but it would be
> more stuff to browse through.
>
> Matt
>
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