Hi, > On Saturday 16 September 2006 05:44, Jan Dvořák wrote: >> Why don't build OpenSSL sooner and make them use it instead? > > OpenSSL's md5 could replace Coreutils' md5sum with a shell script. OpenSSL > and > md5sum have slightly different output however: OK, seams reasonable. We just add optional coreutils patch, that replaces md5sum with our script and prevent coreutils' md5sum build.
> $ openssl md5 TODO > MD5(TODO)= d288fb95096befbea9c5d14b46ea7ddb > > $ md5sum TODO > d288fb95096befbea9c5d14b46ea7ddb TODO > > $ echo foo |openssl dgst -md5 > d3b07384d113edec49eaa6238ad5ff00 > > $ echo foo | md5sum > d3b07384d113edec49eaa6238ad5ff00 - > > I don't know why Coreutils adds the trailing "-". Also, openssl doesn't have > a > built in --check option, so the script would have to do it. The script would > also have to arrange openssl's output to mimic md5sum so .md5sum files are > usable on other systems. It adds that slash to signalize standard input was used. > I'm not much of an sh scripter. I think a shell script would be better than > patching Coreutils to use libcrypto. OpenSSL also supports a few other digest OK, I'll write it. # EOF -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
