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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
Cc: poky@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: SRC checksum checking broken
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:20:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1334697649.616.138.camel@ted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F8DA181.9070005@mlbassoc.com>

On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 10:59 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2012-04-17 10:19, Richard Purdie wrote:
> Well, it seems that the checksums are encouraged, if not required, these days.
> I was just making sure that they actually work & in my opinion, it shouldn't
> matter how you got the file, the checksums should still be checked and match.

You can argue this both ways. I'm leaning that direction although it has
its risks.

> Sadly, this is much worse.  It even [somehow] reached "through" my
> mirror setup and deleted the file on the backing store (i.e. the
> file /work/misc/Poky/sources/busybox-1.19.4.tar.bz2 gets deleted
> when the checksum fails even though it's part of the own-mirror)

Was that the only issue? I can see how it managed to do that, I agree it
shouldn't :/.

Cheers,

Richard



  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-17 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-10 20:10 SRC checksum checking broken Gary Thomas
2012-04-10 23:27 ` Richard Purdie
2012-04-11  0:14   ` Gary Thomas
2012-04-11  1:36     ` Gary Thomas
2012-04-17 12:17       ` Gary Thomas
2012-04-17 15:01         ` Richard Purdie
2012-04-17 15:21           ` Gary Thomas
2012-04-17 15:44             ` Richard Purdie
2012-04-17 15:59               ` Gary Thomas
2012-04-17 16:19                 ` Richard Purdie
2012-04-17 16:59                   ` Gary Thomas
2012-04-17 21:20                     ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2012-04-17 22:14                       ` Gary Thomas
2012-05-13 12:39                         ` Richard Purdie
2012-05-13 22:24                           ` Gary Thomas
2012-05-20  8:29                             ` Richard Purdie
2012-05-21 14:30                               ` Gary Thomas

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