Re: [gentoo-dev] proposed md5sum change

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Thursday 12 June 2003 18:31, Brian Harring wrote:
> Replies are below...
>

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> instead of doing any db-style stuff, just create a file along side (w/in
> the distfile dir most likely) that contains the uncompressed data's
> md5sum.  If you go about creating a db type setup, you're going to run
> into major issues in an environment where the distfiles dir is shared
> out to other systems since you're not going to be sharing the db.

Keeping them in the distdir might create a mess, so I don't know about this 
one, but keeping the md5sums in an easilly exported area is certainly no bad 
idea.

> Basically I could see this- a simple script that a user can use to
> convert non-gz distfiles to bzip2 tarballs which creates the file (think
> linux-2.4.19.tar.bz2 and linux-2.4.19.tar.md5)... for distfile
> diffing/patching, it uses the same method.  If the reconstructed and
> recompressed verion's md5 matches what portage has, hoozah, no need to
> create the file- if not (say upgrading openoffice), we create the file.
> Also, it dawned on me that md5summing the data has an added bonus of
> being indifferent to the patching/differencing method.  In other words,
> we could use the standard unified diff's that are provided for the
> kernel versions for instance.
>
> As for transforming, would it really be needed?  I've spent a bit of
> time rooting through the distfile dir and I don't recall seeing
> non-versioned names, although as always, I could be wrong.
>
You are wrong there are even auxiliary files in the distfiles repository. 
Unversioned tarbals are though, certainly not helping to get a package into 
the repository. Sometimes we provide a versioned version of a tarbal on the 
portage mirrors.

Paul

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