[OE-core] opkg and gpg signed ipk packages

[Gary Thomas]

On 2015-05-19 05:47, Sona Sarmadi wrote:
>
>>> I'm guessing you would want something like this in your custom distro
>>> config (or local.conf if you must):
>>>
>>> PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-opkg = " sha256"
>>> PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-opkg-native = " sha256"
>>
>
> Thanks a lot guys for your help, this is now working :)
> There is support for sha256 in opkg but not in the opkg-utils.
> opkg-utils (opkg.py) just uses md5 as default option. I changed
>
> opkg.py:
> ........
>          # compute the MD5.
>          if not self.fn:
>              self.md5 = 'Unknown'
>          else:
>              f = open(self.fn, "rb")
>              sum = hashlib.md5()
> to
>              sum = hashlib.sha256()
>
> and now I get checksum sha256 in the "Packages" file:
>
> SHA256Sum: 6be1fb5b9dab3de5848fd578d515d05adc5c6cd3b0009f8c1b13ab1250cee594
>
> Do you think this patch would be of interest for someone?

Yes, including everything you found that needs to be set up to
support these checksums.

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