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From: Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Overriding/disabling MD5 checksums
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:33:12
Message-Id: 0107300134310I.00811@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Overriding/disabling MD5 checksums by Daniel Robbins
1 On Monday 30 July 2001 01:31, you wrote:
2 > On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 01:29:42AM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
3 > > ibiblio.org is linuxdoc's main d/l site as well as gentoo's. I can do it
4 > > two-three times a month, it's no big deal. As long as we decide we don't
5 > > have to always provide the latest version. If that's what we've decided,
6 > > OK. I'll d/l the latest tomorrow morning, make a checksum and tell achim
7 > > to copy it to the gentoo dir at ibiblio.org from the linuxdoc dir -
8 > > that's probably fastest.
9 >
10 > Yes, that's how we'll do it. Portage doesn't have the ability to
11 > auto-update ebuilds to the most recent version available (at least not
12 > yet), so it's really our only option (again, right now.) When I get back
13 > to hacking on Portage, that situation will change. But until I have the
14 > time, we need to do things within our existing framework and feature set.
15 >
16
17 OK. Bye now.
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21 Dan Armak
22 Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
23 Matan, Israel