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From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:42:00
Message-Id: 200601300830.37396.jstubbs@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Portage by Tony Davison
1 On Monday 30 January 2006 02:57, Tony Davison wrote:
2 > Portage -2.1_pra4-r1 has a new dependency of dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1,
3 > anyone know why?
4 > I only askbecausi it is new and nothing else (on this box) depends on it, so
5 > I wondered what it would break.
6
7 It's to support non-MD5 hashing algorithms. If you have a look at portage's
8 Manifest, you'll see MD5, RMD160 and SHA256 hashes for all files. These are
9 generatable and verifiable from 2.1_pre4.
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