[fedora-arm] Broken sha512sum in coreutils

[Gordan Bobic]

On 01/08/2011 10:02 AM, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 09:54 +0000, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>
>> I would like to offer a counter-proposal - no package is accepted into
>> Fedora (ARM?) until it stops generating misalignment warnings. That way
>> there might actually be some effort toward getting things fixed rather
>> than just glazing over the problem. From what I can see, relatively few
>> things in the base distribution do actually trip the problem (one
>> exception being DeviceKit-disks package that I mentioned earlier - will
>> file a bugzilla on that later).
>
> This proposal sounds far more reasonable, and it has the added benefit
> that other similar architectures in future won't have to worry about
> alignment biting - and besides, while ARMv7 is pretty much safe, there's
> a lot of older stuff out there (ARMv4 is now officially deprecated, but
> that leaves several other architecture revisions in current use).

Not to mention that the performance hit is an issue - anything that 
makes everything go slower for the sake of fixing bugs in a few 
problematic packages is a very bad idea.

Gordan