Re: [gentoo-dev] Overriding/disabling MD5 checksums

[Dan Armak]

Never mind.

On Monday 30 July 2001 01:26, you wrote:
> I have to go now. I'll read your reply & answer tomorrow. Hopefully we can
> get this issue quickly sorted out.
>
> On Monday 30 July 2001 01:21, you wrote:
> > On Monday 30 July 2001 01:14, you wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 09:40:54PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > My question got lost in the howto thread, so I'm reposting here.
> > > >
> > > > How can I override checksum checking/generation in an ebuild? Some
> > > > things e.g. the howto ebuilds need this, because they're auto-updated
> > > > 5 days a week and we obviously can't keep checksum lists for all
> > > > versions. Therefore the ebuild should only check that the archive
> > > > extracts with no errors.
> > >
> > > You cannot override the md5 checks.  They exist to ensure archive
> > > integrity, which is a good thing.  Right now, you need to create a new
> > > ebuild for each new package version, as the package version of the
> > > ebuild and the actual src archive should be equivalent.
> >
> > So do you want me to create a new ebuild 5 days a week? And the end-user
> > would have to 'emerge rsync' 5 days a week to emerge the latest version?
> >
> > Now, we (pm and I) have spoken to the linuxdoc.org guy, and he's agreed
> > to make archives with timestamps in their filenames. But, mirrors
> > probably won't be keeping more than two or three old versions. So again
> > we need to update *something* 5 days/week.
> >
> > What do you propose?
> >
> > (Someone should include MD5 checksums as a server-side function in the
> > http/ftp protocols. :-)

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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel