[oe] checksums situation

[Koen Kooi]

On 25-02-09 23:04, Vitus Jensen wrote:

> If this leads you to abandon checksums alltogether: the current situation
> protects against corrupt downloads and otherwise undetected updates from
> upstream and I'm all for keeping such a protection.

I get reports pretty much every single week about someone asking "what 
does 'checksum failed' mean" when their download is corrupt due to evil 
proxies and bad disks. It's a lot easier and faster to debug than 
seemingly random build failures.

regards,

Koen