[Thincrust-devel] [patch] act md5/sha256 disk signature support for appliance-creator

[Bryan Kearney]

Joey Boggs wrote:
> Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> Joey Boggs wrote:
>>> Adds md5/sha256 disk signature support for appliance-creator enabled 
>>> by --checksum option
>>>
>>> Still awaiting approval and commit for python-virtinst for virt-image 
>>> import verification portions.
>>
> 
> 
> you'll have to run md5sum and sha256sum in binary mode add the -b option 
> and they will match.

Seems to not matter for me:

[bkearney at localhost resources]$ md5sum -b git-sda.raw
b57f316acd9c6859bfc52bcfa2ef9ffa *git-sda.raw
[bkearney at localhost resources]$ md5sum  git-sda.raw
b57f316acd9c6859bfc52bcfa2ef9ffa  git-sda.raw
[bkearney at localhost resources]$



> 
> Both formats were added to ensure a higher level of verifications where 
> available (sha256) using hashlib which is only in python 2.5. More 
> details on et-mgmt-tools list.
>

Ok.. sounds good.

-- bk