[debbugs-tracker] bug#15604: closed (sha256sum (and others of the *sum family) lacks important option)

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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #15604,
regarding sha256sum (and others of the *sum family) lacks important option
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> Sun, 13 Oct 2013 12:31:15 +0200
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> Hi,
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> the hashsum check files like  sha256sum would be quite usefull (and
> improve security), if they could easily be used within shellscripts to
> verify downloads. E.g. Ubuntu provides signed hash files like
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> http://releases.ubuntu.com/precise/SHA256SUMS
> http://releases.ubuntu.com/precise/SHA256SUMS.gpg
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> But one rarely downloads all files, only the needed ones.
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> Unfortunately, sha256sum prints warnings and exits with exit status 1
> when files are missing, even when the present files are correct. This
> makes checking the files more difficult in shellscripts and might keep
> most script authors from checking downloads.
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> It would be significantly more usefull and thus more secure if  the *sum
> commands had an additional option to not report missing files as an
> error and to verify just the present files.
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> regards
> Hadmut
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> > I'll push a bit later today.
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> Pushed at 
> http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v8.24-91-g9fd0662
> Marking http://bugs.gnu.org/15604 done
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