[oe] Official policy to list checksums

[Koen Kooi]

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On 24-01-10 08:06, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 09:06:13PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
>> does [1] still describe the official policy to add checksums? Or is
> 
> No
> 
>> putting them into the recipes preferred nowadays?
> 
> Yes

I think not! The new format:

* is not documented
* it has no tools to autogenerate it
* has not been agreed on in any way.

As an experiment I tried to use it for a branch at work and I
*absolutely* hate the workflow needed for the new format.

With checksums.ini it's a matter of:

either

cat /OE/tmp/checksums.ini >> conf/checksums.ini ; python
contrib/source-checker/oe-checksum-sorter -i conf/checksums.ini

or

Verbatimly copy/paste the *output* OE gives you into conf/checksums.ini.

These concerns have been raised time after time and still haven't been
addressed, so for now:

checksums.ini is the way to go
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