apt-zip MD5 check breaks with apt SHA256 checks

One could change fetch script generated by apt-zip to use 'sha256sum' instead of 'md5sum' to check for the checksum. Here is the changed check() function inside the fetch script:

check(){
    [ ! -r "$1" ] && return 1
    [ "`type sha256sum`" ] &&
        if [ "`sha256sum $1 | cut -d' ' -f1`" = "`echo $2 | cut -d':' -f2`" ]
        then return 0
        else err $1 "wrong MD5"; return 1
        fi
    [ "`type gzip`" ] &&
        if ar p $1 data.tar.gz | gzip -t
        then return 0
        else err $1 "wrong contents"; return 1
        fi
    return $3
}

I have used this to fetch the .debs for the two boxes while doing 7.10 -> 8.04 upgrade.

This new downloader script fixes it and does check with all available algoritms.

And here there is a patch against the script creator

I thought this bug was fixed? Because in 12.04/Precise Pangolin, the checksumming still fails. Only now the script is designed to look for sha256 sums, but the download list is showing MD5 sums.

Seems as though two people must have fixed the same bug, and thereby swapped the problem to wher eit fails in the opposite fashion now..

This is now obsolete as in 14.04 this works as expected.