From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [80.91.229.12] (helo=lo.gmane.org) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N74DR-0002IP-DI for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:37:48 +0100 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N74CF-0006wk-Oz for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:36:31 +0100 Received: from s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl ([85.145.118.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:36:31 +0100 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:36:31 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:36:09 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3pre) Gecko/20090811 Shredder/3.0b4pre Sender: news X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.91.229.12 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gcho-openembedded-devel@m.gmane.org X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: Checksums.ini sorting and updating X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:37:48 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, When adding a new recipe I do: cd $TMPDIR cat /OE/org.openembedded.dev/conf/checksums.ini >> checksums.ini ; python /OE/org.openembedded.dev/contrib/source-checker/oe-checksums-sorter.py checksums.ini > /OE/org.openembedded.dev/conf/checksums.ini Then, when possible, I match the new entries in conf/checksums.ini to the sums upstream publishes. After that I will try to build the recipe and if successfull commit it. Sometimes I encounter what look like spurious changes in 'git diff conf/checksums.ini' which are caused by: 1) pre-coffee manual additions that are in the wrong place and get resorted 2) people having deleted(!) checksums that repear due to being in my TMPDIR checksum cache Now 1) can be solved by running a script like the one I mentioned above, but 2) needs an attitude adjustment. OE is not wikipedia where recipes get deleted because a single person thinks no-one is using them. We have lots of people using external overlays for various recipes and deleting things from checksums.ini will only make their life harder. So, please stop deleting checksums and start using a more automated way to update checksums.ini :) regards, Koen