[CentOS] Checksums for git repo content?

[Leonard den Ottolander]

Hello Gordon,

On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 12:38 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Git already has the protection you're looking for.  As part of its core 
> design, git uses a hash chain to verify the integrity of its history.  
> Every change and every file is thus protected.  It's impossible to 
> insert changes or to modify the history of the git repository in a way 
> that wouldn't be extremely visible to all users.
> 
> If you check out a module using git, and fetch its external sources 
> using get_sources.sh, you can rest assured that every file used to build 
> an RPM has been hashed and verified.

Alright, understood. Only the sources downloaded with get_sources.sh
need a checksum then. Which are the ones in <package>.metadata.

Thanks for clearing this up and sorry Johnny for the fuzz :) .

Regards,
Leonard.

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