On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 3:34 PM Rainer Jung <rainer.j...@kippdata.de> wrote:

> Am 07.09.2018 um 18:19 schrieb William A Rowe Jr:
> > Please cast your votes on the following release candidate
> > found at http://apr.apache.org/dev/dist/
> >
> > Release apr-1.6.4
> >    [  ] +/-1
>
> One niggle: the sha files are not very tool friendly. I'm using
> sha1sum/sha256sum/sha512sum which can check the checksum files but do
> not understand the format used for 1.6.4. The previous version 1.6.3
> used a checksum file format, the tools did understand. That format would be
>
> CHECKSUM *FILENAME
>
> and the "*" (indicating binary) is only there if the file is not a text
> file, eg. for our tarballs and zip files.


Hi Rainer,

I didn't find a follow-up on this, but I trust our tools/release.sh now
gives you
an appropriate .sha256 format file your tools can parse, with the -r
coreutils
flag passed to openssl?

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