Gentoo Archives: gentoo-java

From: Greg Tassone <greg@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-java@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] Solving bug 67266 ( java-sdk-docs-1.5.0 (jdk-1_5_0-doc.zip) has wrong md5-sum )
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 22:27:23
Message-Id: 1134080797.7511.12.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-java] Solving bug 67266 ( java-sdk-docs-1.5.0 (jdk-1_5_0-doc.zip) has wrong md5-sum ) by "Petteri Räty"
1 On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 23:27 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote:
2 > So the upstream file has changed and now the md5sum verification failes.
3 > Attached is a patch that I came up with. I personally have bookmarked
4 > the sdk docs in my browser so that is why I did not want to change the
5 > installation directory, I also did not want to change the md5sum of the
6 > existing version. I will commit this tomorrow unless someone has a
7 > better idea on how to fix this:
8 >
9 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67266
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12 Ouch. It's too bad that they (Sun) don't have a more sane version
13 scheme for the docs. IMO It's bad form for them to modify published,
14 versioned content but not increment it somehow.
15
16 Oh well. Given that you don't have many options, and that these files
17 already require manual manipulation via the fetch restriction, I'd say
18 your fix makes good sense.
19
20 Greg

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