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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2012-10-25 00:05:12 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2012-10-25 00:05:17 -0400 |
| commit | be3ba969eca03384fcf93b1da59b186c4932dcd6 (patch) | |
| tree | 5e7ef24b1b3e5f1f22b6be24de096ddcae01b951 /doc | |
| parent | 53a057a1cb6661b62cd992efe0ad885bcac84cba (diff) | |
configure: Check that checksum programs produce correct checksums. + bitter rant
So, it might be called sha1sum, or on some other OS, it might be called
sha1. It might be hidden away off of PATH on that OS. That's just expected
insanity; UNIX has been this way since 1980's. And these days, nobody even
gives the flying flip about standards that we briefly did in the 90's
after the first round of unix wars.
But it's the 2010's now, and we've certainly learned something.
So, let's make it so sometimes sha1 is a crazy program that wants to run as
root so it can lock memory while prompting for a passphrase, and outputting
binary garbage. Yes, that'd be wise. Let's package that in major Linux
distros, too, so users can stumble over it.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/configure_mistakes_hashalot_bins_for_sha__63____63____63__sum_and_builds_a_broken_git-annex_executable.mdwn | 7 |
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/configure_mistakes_hashalot_bins_for_sha__63____63____63__sum_and_builds_a_broken_git-annex_executable.mdwn b/doc/bugs/configure_mistakes_hashalot_bins_for_sha__63____63____63__sum_and_builds_a_broken_git-annex_executable.mdwn index c7ed04c65..46dfa4f70 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/configure_mistakes_hashalot_bins_for_sha__63____63____63__sum_and_builds_a_broken_git-annex_executable.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/configure_mistakes_hashalot_bins_for_sha__63____63____63__sum_and_builds_a_broken_git-annex_executable.mdwn @@ -48,3 +48,10 @@ This is not a runtime bug, only compile time. Uninstalling Hashalot or simply r I found this bug on Gentoo when I installed git-annex on a system which already had hashalot installed. In the case of Gentoo, git-annex is compiled with hashalot's executables in the path, but normal users don't have /usr/sbin/ in their path so git-annex just fails to find the executable. If you put hashalot in the path, then git annex still fails to work as hashalot is not a replacement for sha1sum and friends. It may be enough to just prefer sha???sum over sha??? if they both exist. + +> Grr. There is no consistency across unixes as to the names of these +> programs and now something is installing shaN commands that don't +> generate a checksum?! +> +> Ok, fine, configure now checks that the program it finds outputs a known +> good checksum. [[done]] --[[Joey]] |