[oe] checksums situation

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 19:25 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:01:05PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> [snip]
> > I do belive that the best way to solve it is to have a md5 file together
> > with the .bb recipe. This solves the problems for forks, derivatives and
> > also makes harder to just use "cat tmp/checksums.ini >> conf/checksums.ini".
> 
> Running a script that will make the .sum file isn't any harder really.
> And it's still a "this is the checksum we downloaded" not "this is the
> checksum upstream says is correct".

You can specify the md5 as part of the SRC_URI if I remember correctly.
Its just such a pain, nobody does.

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RP