Re: [LEDE-DEV] SHA256 hashes for packages

2017-01-06 Thread Hannu Nyman
On 6.1.2017 0:28, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > Hello Hannu, > why should a variable be called MD5 if it holds an SHA256 hash? That does not make any sense. > > Could you, please, point me to the thread on the openwrt or lede list that discussed this weird idea. Not sure if that widely discuss

Re: [LEDE-DEV] SHA256 hashes for packages

2017-01-05 Thread Alberto Bursi
Older OpenWRT releases won't get the new package (or the updates) anyway so breaking compatibility is not an issue. Although using a misleading name is still an issue. In LEDE core repo that var was renamed into PKG_HASH and contains a SHA256sum. The LEDE buildsystem works with both variables h