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On Monday 30 July 2001 01:14, you wrote: |
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> On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 09:40:54PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote: |
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> > Hi all, |
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> > My question got lost in the howto thread, so I'm reposting here. |
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> > How can I override checksum checking/generation in an ebuild? Some things |
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> > e.g. the howto ebuilds need this, because they're auto-updated 5 days a |
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> > week and we obviously can't keep checksum lists for all versions. |
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> > Therefore the ebuild should only check that the archive extracts with no |
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> > errors. |
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> You cannot override the md5 checks. They exist to ensure archive |
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> integrity, which is a good thing. Right now, you need to create a new |
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> ebuild for each new package version, as the package version of the ebuild |
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> and the actual src archive should be equivalent. |
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So do you want me to create a new ebuild 5 days a week? And the end-user |
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would have to 'emerge rsync' 5 days a week to emerge the latest version? |
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Now, we (pm and I) have spoken to the linuxdoc.org guy, and he's agreed to |
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make archives with timestamps in their filenames. But, mirrors probably won't |
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be keeping more than two or three old versions. So again we need to update |
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*something* 5 days/week. |
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What do you propose? |
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(Someone should include MD5 checksums as a server-side function in the |
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http/ftp protocols. :-) |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team |
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Matan, Israel |
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