[Pulp-dev] [Pulp-list] Removing MD5 and SHA-1 as default available checksums in 3.11

[Neal Gompa]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 9:22 PM Daniel Alley <dalley at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> RPM and Migration plugin users will need to add this back in at 3.11 upgrade time for your systems to continue working.
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> Just to clarify, this only applies if you are using RPM repositories that use MD5 or SHA1 checksums.  None of the Red Hat or CentOS repositories for RHEL / CentOS 8 do, and only a couple of the RHEL / CentOS 7 repositories do, mosty the smaller and less used ones.
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> MD5 can be left disabled unless you are managing extremely old or misconfigured repositories.
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SHA1 is required for SLE 11 and RHEL 5, as neither can process
SHA2-based checksums. While RHEL 5 is firmly EOL, SLE 11 is still
supported for two more years for SUSE customers using LTSS for SLE 11
SP4.



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