[csw-maintainers] GAR and checksums

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Tue Aug 24 15:09:18 CEST 2010


On Tuesday, August 24, 2010, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
>
> Please stand by. I have changed my mind about taking checksums out:
> there are a couple of packages which rely on upstream packages
> without version number. To ensure that the file which goes into
> the package is the right one the checksum is the only check
> available.


thats fine an all, for "external" files... but at the same time, it
doesn't make much sense to be running checksums on files which are
kept in our subversion repository


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