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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 week |
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> and we obviously can't keep checksum lists for all versions. Therefore the |
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> ebuild should only check that the archive extracts with no errors. |
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You cannot override the md5 checks. They exist to ensure archive integrity, |
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which is a good thing. Right now, you need to create a new ebuild for each |
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new package version, as the package version of the ebuild and the actual src |
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archive should be equivalent. |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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