Re: checksums situation

[Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:46:39PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 05:28:08PM +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > It is nearly two years since conf/checksums.ini was introduced. We 
> > populated it with over 6000 entries during that time (mostly by 
> > automatic fetching of all source on CELF and EWI machines). But there 
> > are problems with it's format.
> 
> I'm going to make a different suggestion.  Lets just drop it.  Part of
> why I say this is that we went back on it being a mandatory thing
> because it was a burden.  And we're already back to adding stuff without
> checksums again (gstreamer, libdaemon on this build so far..).
[snip]
> Oh, and in the 5 minutes the above took to write, gst-plugins-base
> failed to have a checksum too.

OK, this is a me problem.  But the rest of my point stands.  I'm willing
to bet most people aren't making sure the md5/sha1 is right with
upstream, and I think we'd be better off at trying to automatically grab
an upstream verification and use that.

-- 
Tom Rini