[oe] Checksums.ini again - new format this time

Denys Dmytriyenko denis at denix.org
Tue Nov 10 11:39:46 UTC 2009


On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 07:53:22AM +0100, Petr ?tetiar wrote:
> Holger Hans Peter Freyther <holger+oe at freyther.de> [2009-11-02 03:09:56]:
> 
> > On Sunday 01 November 2009 23:59:18 Andrea Adami wrote:
> > > And what about having a checksum file in each dir of  /recipes ?
> > > If the checksum changes the PR should be changed too.
> > 
> > 
> > I think that is the best way in terms of scalability and BB collections. We 
> > have some weird cases where we might do require ../ but these are broken or 
> > need to duplicate the checksums...
> 
> I like this idea more than one monolitic checksum file. checksums.ini is place
> for storing of a duplicate information anyway. You need to enter URL in checksums,
> you need to enter URL again into recipe.
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to write URL with checksum once at one place and reuse
> it than in recipe as some kind of variable or something like that?

It was discussed during OEDEM and the conclusion was to switch to using 
checksums in SRC_URIs of corresponding recipes.

--
Denys




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