[oe] checksums situation

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 05:28:08PM +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:

> 
> Hi
> 
> It is nearly two years since conf/checksums.ini was introduced. We 
> populated it with over 6000 entries during that time (mostly by 
> automatic fetching of all source on CELF and EWI machines). But there 
> are problems with it's format.

I'm going to make a different suggestion.  Lets just drop it.  Part of
why I say this is that we went back on it being a mandatory thing
because it was a burden.  And we're already back to adding stuff without
checksums again (gstreamer, libdaemon on this build so far..).  And, is
anyone doing more then 'cat tmp/checksums.ini >>
openembedded/conf/checksums.ini && python the-sorter' ?  And by more I
mean check for an upstream .md5 or similar, to make sure this is really
right?

Perhaps we're going about this wrong.  Perhaps we want to see if from
upstream we can get ${URI}.md5, .md5sum .sha1 or any of the other
standard mechanisms and seeing if we get that as a match (and
pre-seeding ourselves with just the hashes for the tools that check
hashes).

Oh, and in the 5 minutes the above took to write, gst-plugins-base
failed to have a checksum too.

-- 
Tom Rini