[oe] Official policy to list checksums

[Graeme Gregory]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 03:43:40AM -0500, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> This way we won't get anywhere... :) I thought (maybe I'm wrong) everybody 
> agrees at least with the fact that central checksums.ini is not the best 
> approach. Keeping checksums in the metadata inside SRC_URI seemed like a 
> viable solution. Are there any fundamental flaws with this method, besides 
> lacking some tools?

I dont think there is any fundamental flaws, but there is still quite
a lot of cleanup work. Patches like

http://www.xora.org.uk/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?h=xora/gnome-update&id=d2074190e711eb70a0bd26d2ac5b89b4988044b5

Will need to be applied in some places.

Graeme