[oe] OEDEM 2009 summary: Death to checksums.ini?

[Phil Blundell]

On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 17:01 +0100, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> 2009/11/11 Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org>:
> > On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 14:17 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> >> SCR_URI = "xyz://abc.com/efg.tgz;name=bar"
> >>
> >> MD5SUM_bar = ""
> >>
> >> or maybe :
> >>
> >> MD5SUM[bar] = ""
> >
> > The labelling is a good idea, although I am not especially keen on
> > either of those notations.  How about:
> >
> > SRC_URI = "xyz://abc.com/efg.tgz;name=bar"
> > SRC_URI[md5sum:bar] = "..."
> > SRC_URI[sha256sum:bar] = "..."
> >
> Would we still be able to use PN and PV in the md5sum:bar etc?

Not directly, though it isn't entirely obvious to me why this would be a
useful thing to do.  Did you have a situation in mind where this would
be desirable?

p.