After repository creation, there are several files in the repodata
directory. repomd.xml contains hashes of the other .xml.gz files. If we
look at the entry for primary.xml we get this:
<data type="primary">
<location href="repodata/primary.xml.gz"/>
<checksum type="sha">af43b5994495060dd222f6a56684194742c54d78</checksum>
<timestamp>1103135373</timestamp>
<open-checksum
type="sha">b4098edfc3a1d5786eec0495862f3a84eec6b0c5</open-checksum>
</data>
Now if I do a sha1sum of primary.xml.gz I get this:
wume4:~/btyum/rsync/i386/repodata% sha1sum primary.xml.gz
af43b5994495060dd222f6a56684194742c54d78 primary.xml.g
Which matches the first checksum number. I was wondering how the second
is generated? A google search for "open checksum" just brings up repo
files :).
I am making changes to the primary.xml file and I need to be able to
update the repomd.xml file. My application is in Python, so pointing to
code examples would be awesome.
Thanks,
Jarret Raim
