refactor: ask the mode module instead of retyping it

Four sites still compared the verification mode to a literal after the
module owning that policy existed. One of them mattered: an unrecognised
mode fell through to MD5 verification while compute_severity was scoring
it as existence, so a typo in a platform YAML produced a report whose
checks and severities described different platforms.

The mode is normalized once per run and the consumers ask for what they
need. A test reads the sources and fails on a literal comparison, so the
next consumer cannot quietly grow a fifth copy.

scripts/generate_pack.py

@@ -56,7 +56,11 @@ from common import (
 import region as region_mod
 import slot as slot_mod
 from deterministic_zip import _FIXED_DATE_TIME, rebuild_zip_deterministic
-from nativemode import hash_mismatch_excludes_file
+from nativemode import (
+    digest_algorithm,
+    hash_mismatch_excludes_file,
+    reads_file_contents,
+)
 from validation import (
     _build_validation_index,
     check_file_validation,
@@ -1745,7 +1749,9 @@ def generate_pack(
                             file_reasons[dedup_key] = "not found"
                         continue
 
-                if status == "hash_mismatch" and verification_mode != "existence":
+                if status == "hash_mismatch" and hash_mismatch_excludes_file(
+                    verification_mode
+                ):
                     zf_name = file_entry.get("zipped_file")
                     if zf_name and local_path:
                         inner_md5_raw = file_entry.get("md5", "")
@@ -3779,7 +3785,8 @@ def generate_manifest(
                 # hash the local dump contradicts is not a reason to withhold
                 # the file. Hash platforms would reject it, so they omit it.
                 if status in ("not_found", "external") or (
-                    status == "hash_mismatch" and verification_mode != "existence"
+                    status == "hash_mismatch"
+                    and hash_mismatch_excludes_file(verification_mode)
                 ):
                     record_omission(full_dest, file_entry, sys_id, status, None)
                     continue
@@ -4529,19 +4536,20 @@ def verify_pack_against_platform(
         # error when the repo holds a file matching a declaration: without
         # one, the pack ships its best effort and the gap is a data issue
         # reported by verify.py, not a generation bug.
-        if verification_mode in ("md5", "sha1"):
+        digest = digest_algorithm(verification_mode)
+        if reads_file_contents(verification_mode) and digest:
             for member, decl_entries in decl_by_member.items():
                 checkable = [
                     fe
                     for fe in decl_entries
-                    if str(fe.get(verification_mode) or "").strip()
+                    if str(fe.get(digest) or "").strip()
                 ]
                 if not checkable:
                     continue
                 member_errors = []
                 satisfied = False
                 for fe in checkable:
-                    err = _check_member_hash(zf, member, fe, verification_mode)
+                    err = _check_member_hash(zf, member, fe, digest)
                     if err is None:
                         satisfied = True
                         break

scripts/generate_site.py

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ from common import (
     write_if_changed,
     yaml_load,
 )
+from nativemode import reads_file_contents
 
 yaml = require_yaml()
 from generate_readme import compute_coverage, manifest_totals
@@ -1603,7 +1604,7 @@ def generate_platform_page(
 
     pct_val = cov["present"] / cov["total"] * 100 if cov["total"] else 0
     mode_badge = (
-        "rb-badge-success" if mode in ("md5", "sha1") else "rb-badge-info"
+        "rb-badge-success" if reads_file_contents(mode) else "rb-badge-info"
     )
 
     lines = [

scripts/verify.py

@@ -53,7 +53,12 @@ from common import (
 )
 
 yaml = require_yaml()
-from nativemode import hash_mismatch_excludes_file, reads_file_contents
+from nativemode import (
+    digest_algorithm,
+    hash_mismatch_excludes_file,
+    normalize as normalize_mode,
+    reads_file_contents,
+)
 from validation import (
     _build_validation_index,
     _parse_validation,
@@ -764,7 +769,9 @@ def verify_platform(
     A region priority list narrows the report to the files a pack built with the
     same list would carry, using the same selection function as the builder.
     """
-    mode = config.get("verification_mode", "existence")
+    # Normalized once: a typo in a platform YAML must not verify with one
+    # mode and be scored with another.
+    mode = normalize_mode(config.get("verification_mode"))
     platform = config.get("platform", "unknown")
 
     has_zipped = any(
@@ -842,14 +849,14 @@ def verify_platform(
                 zip_contents,
                 data_dir_registry=data_dir_registry,
             )
-            if mode == "existence":
+            if not reads_file_contents(mode):
                 result = verify_entry_existence(
                     file_entry,
                     local_path,
                     validation_index,
                     db,
                 )
-            elif mode == "sha1":
+            elif digest_algorithm(mode) == "sha1":
                 result = verify_entry_sha1(file_entry, local_path)
             else:
                 result = verify_entry_md5(file_entry, local_path, resolve_status)
@@ -1158,7 +1165,7 @@ def print_platform_result(
     problems = total - ok_count
 
     # Summary line
-    if mode == "existence":
+    if not reads_file_contents(mode):
         if problems:
             missing = c.get(Severity.WARNING, 0) + c.get(Severity.CRITICAL, 0)
             optional_missing = c.get(Severity.INFO, 0)