[oe] checksums situation
Tom Rini
trini at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Feb 24 06:51:24 UTC 2009
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:46:39PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> 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..).
[snip]
> Oh, and in the 5 minutes the above took to write, gst-plugins-base
> failed to have a checksum too.
OK, this is a me problem. But the rest of my point stands. I'm willing
to bet most people aren't making sure the md5/sha1 is right with
upstream, and I think we'd be better off at trying to automatically grab
an upstream verification and use that.
--
Tom Rini
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