Re: [PATCH] Fix rpm2cio sums

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

On 12-02-09 13:41, Roman I Khimov wrote:
> Koen Kooi:
>> On 12-02-09 12:26, Roman I Khimov wrote:
>>> Don't know why, but rpm2cpio tarball checksums are wrong, so here is
>>> the fix:
>> If they are wrong we want to see the diff between the old and new
>> tarballs, replacing checksums as soon as upstream changes defeats the
>> purpose of us adding them.
>
> If I've had old one anywhere around, I'd show the diff, but the problem is I
> don't have it.
>
>  From what I see most probably it's some meta-data changes as we have
> ready-to-install FreeBSD tarball there with all
> its "+COMMENT", "+CONTENTS", "+DESC", "+MTREE_DIRS" files. So
> the 'rpm2cpio.pl' itself should be the same.
>
> Now another question is why OE package uses such tarball as source at all.
> So, probably we can change the source to something like
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/ports/archivers/rpm2cpio/files/rpm2cpio?rev=1.2;content-type=text%2Fplain;only_with_tag=RELEASE_7_1_0
>
> which is the only file we need and it's rev'd tagged should-be-non-volatile.

Seeing the current sitation with the freebsd people this would get my vote.

regards,

Koen