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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH 1/5] targets: Drop SHA512 isoroot verification support
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 10:51:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdQ38HbYOLpRdW0J2GYC0Kho5DO7SQnXp_bvTrNwT_eG+q3_Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200408091330.73b6ebf1@professor-x>

On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 9:13 AM Brian Dolbec <dolsen@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I know I've been out of touch for almost the last year, but why remove
> sha512?  the current code it is optional for either of the two or both.
>
> What is gentoo now supplying primarily?
>
> If any change is to be made, I think it should be made as a plugin so
> the base code doesn't need to be changed as things change to the
> checksum of the day...

releng.git does not use this functionality at all -- it was added by
Rick for Pentoo, and Pentoo is now using only blake2.

I'd like to remove it because catalyst is already a monstrosity of
unnecessary and unused functionality.

I'm happy to just fork catalyst if others want it to remain this way.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-08 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-08  3:27 [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH 1/5] targets: Drop SHA512 isoroot verification support Matt Turner
2020-04-08  3:27 ` [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH 2/5] targets: Simplify isoroot_checksum() Matt Turner
2020-04-08  3:27 ` [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH 3/5] targets: Move isoroot verify check into isoroot_checksum() Matt Turner
2020-04-08  3:27 ` [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH 4/5] targets: Support isoroot checksum on more platforms Matt Turner
2020-04-08  3:27 ` [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH 5/5] targets: Use GRUB for BIOS boot Matt Turner
2020-04-08 16:13 ` [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH 1/5] targets: Drop SHA512 isoroot verification support Brian Dolbec
2020-04-08 17:51   ` Matt Turner [this message]
2020-04-08 18:40     ` Brian Dolbec

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