and another bugfix for cached check sums reporting on severity of bug…

… in UPGRADING

doc/UPGRADING.rst

@@ -36,6 +36,18 @@ Installation Instructions
 git
 ---
 
+2.21.08
+-------
+
+
+BUG FIXED by this release:
+
+it looks like -n (checksum based on file name) was not working as intended... for a long time, as reported in
+( https://github.com/MetPX/sarracenia/issues/377 ) when multiple file versions had different sizes, they
+would not be identified as the same file for duplicate_suppression purposes, making the -n option quite
+ineffective. Searching through the changelog, it looks like this has been present for a long time. 
+
+
 2.21.04
 -------
 

sarra/sr_post.py

@@ -586,8 +586,12 @@ def compute_sumstr(self, path, fsiz):
                 self.logger.debug("mtime remembered by xattr")
 
                 attr_sum = xattr.get('sum')
-                if attr_sum[0] == self.sumflg :
+                if ( attr_sum[0] == self.sumflg ) :
                     return attr_sum
+
+                if hasattr(self.msg.headers,'sum') and ( attr_sum[0] == self.msg.headers['sum'][0] ) :
+                    return attr_sum
+
         else:
             sumflg = self.sumflg