[OE-core] libiconv checksum wrong

[Khem Raj]

On 07/20/2011 04:55 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> 2011/7/20 Phil Blundell<philb at gnu.org>
>
>> Since updating this morning I'm getting
>>
>> | ERROR: Function 'File: '/home/pb/sources/libiconv-1.13.1.tar.gz' has
>> md5 checksum 7ab33ebd26687c744a37264a330bbe9a when
>> d42b97f6ef5dd0ba4469d520ed732fed was expected (from URL:
>> 'ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.13.1.tar.gz')' failed
>> NOTE: package libiconv-1.13.1-r0: task do_fetch: Failed
>>
>> The offending commit appears to be
>> bd1e627bef29830f9346b4b984905fd8fcf2e716.  As far as I can tell from a
>> quick inspection of the files, the checksum that was added for
>> libiconv-1.13.1.tar.gz in that commit is actually the md5sum of the
>> earlier version 1.11.1.
>>
>> This seems to indicate that the added 1.13.1 recipe has not been build by
> neither the submitter nor the committer (let alone tested by someone).
> is that the kind of quality we want to achieve in oe-core ?
>

there is already patch sent to fix it.
http://patches.openembedded.org/patch/7933/
libiconv is not default provider of virtual/libiconv on eglibc/glibc 
based systems and sometimes that can trip you over. It happens and as 
long as we find it and fix it quickly I don't see a problem. Do you ?

IMO we should not get so pedantic that people start getting scared of 
making changes

> Frans.
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