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Nick Rout schreef: |
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> I agree it is necessary when doing something in your overlay. It |
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> seems most people who post to bugs.gentoo.org do not post a digest |
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> file. Perhaps they should. |
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Sometimes people do, but iirc this is discouraged by the dev team. Don't |
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know why, but I know if I use an overlay ebuild, the tarball is |
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downloaded when the digest is made (thus the md5 is taken directly from |
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the tarball after downloading). I don't really think I'd want to rely on |
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some unknown person's digest from a download that may not be the same as |
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mine for whatever reason. At least this way I can confirm the tarball is |
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from the legitimate source (by watching the wget output), and if |
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necessary, compare the digest md5 with the md5 on the tarball's homepage |
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(usually available). |
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Having a digest from an 'untrusted source' (it's unofficial, after all) |
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would encourage me to trust sources I shouldn't just trust by default, |
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and I don't want to get into a bad habit like that. |
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Holly |
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