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jonchang on Nov 7, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Homebrew 1.1.0

Homebrew does, in fact, always use its own strong additional checksum (sha256) in the individual Formulae for all downloaded resources.

raimue on Nov 7, 2016 [–]

There is nothing wrong with calculating your own additional checksum, but as far as I can see, sha256 is now the only supported checksum type in Homebrew at all.

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