On 31/8/21 12:10 am, Konstantin Gizdov via pacman-dev wrote: > Hi all, > > This is work in progress, but I did some basic tests and seems to work. > Since we have b2sums support in makepkg, I was wondering if we could > also add b3sums (https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3). It's been > finalised recently and has a working package in [community] repo. It's > not in coreutils and probably can't easily handle dependencies for > pacman at the moment but the b3sums algo is solid and maybe worth adding > if people want to use it in the future. >
Thanks - I'd prefer this to wait until b3sum is added to coreutils. At this stage BLAKE3 usage is basically non-existent in terms of being provided as a software checksum, and I do not want to add a further dependency to makepkg. Allan
