[oe] checksums situation

[Otavio Salvador]

Richard Purdie <rpurdie at rpsys.net> writes:


[...]

> For checksum.ini I'm proposing we'd go through BBPATH and append all the
> checksum.ini files found together to form one large complete version.
> People's overlay/collections can then supplement the checksum data
> easily. There certainly isn't a technical reason I can see why this
> wouldn't work.

I fully agree that this is technically possible and even a desired
feature if we stay with a checksums.ini file however I fail to see how
it could help to solve the total mess we have in current checksums.ini
commits.

Even worse is the lack of a policy to add/change items there.

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