Re: BKM on add SRC_URI MD5 and SHA256 checksum

[Joshua Lock <josh@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 21:30 -0800, Scott Garman wrote:
> On 11/17/2010 09:10 PM, Saul Wold wrote:
> > On 11/17/2010 06:32 PM, Yu, Ke wrote:
> >> Hi Distro folks:
> >>
> >> As Saul suggest to add SRC_URI MD5 and SHA256 checksum when we upgrade the recipes, here is a simple how-to:
> >>
> >> Two entry is needed for checksum, take meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.23.bb as example:
> >> SRC_URI[md5sum] = "41e2ca4b924ec7860e51b43ad06cdb7e"
> >> SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "c9328372db62fbb1d94c9e4e3cefc961111af46de47085b635359c00a0eebe36"
> >>
> > Also, a clarification, these values should go at the END of the file,
> > which I believe is the OE Style on this.
> 
> The reason you see many OE files with the checksums at the end of the 
> file is that at one point a member of the OE community wrote a script to 
> append the values to a ton of recipes and then checked it in.
> 
> I would think that keeping the SRC_URI fields relatively close to each 
> other makes more logical sense. But I'm not going to get religious about it.

I'm willing to be religious about it. A selling point of Poky has always
been the cleaner, better maintained, metadata. 

Therefore fields which logically fit together should be kept so. Let's
keep the SRC_URI fields together please.

Cheers,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre