RPM Support

I assume the checksums being referred to are the rpm checksums in the package list?

Dennis, are you asking for:

• Given errata where the package list has checksums of multiple types, pulp can publish only one of those types, and filter out any others.

or are you asking for:

• Pulp can publish an erratum using any supported checksum type. If publish is requested with a checksum type where those values are not already in the package list for any given erratum, pulp will go find the relevant RPMs in the database (assuming they are in the repo), and retrieve the checksums.

The former is easy. The latter is complex. An Errata unit in pulp does not have a direct association with RPMs, so retrieving a checksum value would require a unit search by nevra within the repo for each RPM. That could obviously add substantial time if there are many errata.

And if you want the latter, is md5 a checksum type we would need to support retrieval for? We have only been planning to store sha1 and sha256 checksums on RPM units.

Just asking for the former: "Given errata where the package list has checksums of multiple types, pulp can publish only one of those types, and filter out any others."