Units of type ISO have a checksum field. Please add a checksum_type field as well.
It looks like the manifest files on the CDN also don't include a checksum type, so we aren't able to determine what the type is. http://download.devel.redhat.com/cds/prod/content/dist/rhel/server/6/6Server/x86_64/iso/PULP_MANIFEST I understand that you basically own this file's format, so perhaps we should start by adding it there, and then it'll be easy for pulp to grab it and save it. Of course we'll have to be careful to make sure current pulp doesn't fail to parse the file once the checksum type is added, so we should collaborate on the plan and make sure pulp is able to handle it.
Is this still needed?
Yes. It's not urgent, but I would like this added at some point.
Moved to https://pulp.plan.io/issues/201