Re: checksums.ini - should check only against filename not uri_src

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

On 18-10-2008 21:49, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Martin Jansa<Martin.Jansa@mk.cvut.cz>  wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 08:41:09PM +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>> could be used. From discussion on irc it seemed like global checksums.ini
>> is not a good idea at all, at least because of high probability of merge
>> conflicts, and that checksums should be moved to .bb files or defined on
>> per-package files.
>>
> Yes, I agree the checksums solution should be redesigned.
>
>
> Note that I have written a package to help import, learn and
> automatically google for missing packages, from which some ideas might
> be ripped.

Could we use it in OE as do_fetch error handler? If we know the sha256 
sum of a package it is safe to pull it from a semi-random place on the 
net when debian cleans out their archive again.

regards,

Koen


>
> Source here:
>
> http://www.sidebranch.com/leon/witpa_20080730.tar.bz2
>
> Regards,