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diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/packaging_guide.rst b/lib/spack/docs/packaging_guide.rst index 70def5c39a..a082b85efa 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/packaging_guide.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/packaging_guide.rst @@ -467,14 +467,25 @@ to use based on the hash length. ``spack md5`` ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -If you have a single file to checksum, you can use the ``spack md5`` -command to do it. Here's how you might download an archive and get a -checksum for it: +If you have one or more files to checksum, you can use the ``spack md5`` +command to do it: .. code-block:: sh - $ curl -O http://exmaple.com/foo-8.2.1.tar.gz' - $ spack md5 foo-8.2.1.tar.gz + $ spack md5 foo-8.2.1.tar.gz foo-8.2.2.tar.gz + ==> 2 MD5 checksums: + 4136d7b4c04df68b686570afa26988ac foo-8.2.1.tar.gz + 1586b70a49dfe05da5fcc29ef239dce0 foo-8.2.2.tar.gz + +``spack md5`` also accepts one or more URLs and automatically downloads +the files for you: + +.. code-block:: sh + + $ spack md5 http://example.com/foo-8.2.1.tar.gz + ==> Trying to fetch from http://example.com/foo-8.2.1.tar.gz + ######################################################################## 100.0% + ==> 1 MD5 checksum: 4136d7b4c04df68b686570afa26988ac foo-8.2.1.tar.gz Doing this for lots of files, or whenever a new package version is |