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authorRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2018-04-12 13:30:21 +0200
committerRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2018-04-12 15:34:58 +0200
commitadaf3cfad2319fe5c0d6fe179c726cc85eebf2d3 (patch)
treeef04c24bf88496c8a38bcfa760cc3bb23e161db2 /doc
parent18d1588268f0fbec249d3386113df4452234573d (diff)
openssl rehash: document -compat
Fixes #5902 Reviewed-by: Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5937)
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-rw-r--r--doc/man1/rehash.pod6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/rehash.pod b/doc/man1/rehash.pod
index 79268d4792..0a192e91e5 100644
--- a/doc/man1/rehash.pod
+++ b/doc/man1/rehash.pod
@@ -99,6 +99,12 @@ Note that current versions will not use the old style.
Do not remove existing links.
This is needed when keeping new and old-style links in the same directory.
+=item B<-compat>
+
+Generate links for both old-style (MD5) and new-style (SHA1) hashing.
+This allows releases before 1.0.0 to use these links along-side newer
+releases.
+
=item B<-v>
Print messages about old links removed and new links created.