[csw-maintainers] GAR and checksums

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Ben,

Am 24.08.2010 um 15:19 schrieb Ben Walton:
> Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Tue Aug 24 09:09:18 -0400  
> 2010:
>> 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
>
> This would be an easy fix, as we'd simply drop $(PATCHFILES) from the
> $(CHECKSUMFILES) variable, leaving only the tarballs/source files...
>
> Dago?

That would mean two changes:

1. Adjust CHECKSUM_TARGETS to no longer contain PATCHFILES in
      gar.mk:CHECKSUM_TARGETS = $(addprefix checksum-,$(filter-out $ 
(_NOCHECKSUM) $(NOCHECKSUM),$(ALLFILES)))

2. Change the fetching of PATCHFILES to no longer look in MASTER_SITES.
    This is important to look only in files/.

This could be done together with the long-awaited possibility to
specify multiple MASTER_SITES together with DISTFILES. Some packages
like the SGML packages grab lots of files from lots of MASTER_SITES.
Instead of trying n x n it could be optimized to have a 1 : n
relationship.


Best regards

   -- Dago