On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 at 00:00:31, Gordian Edenhofer wrote:
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Why are checksums an issue? You can use the checksum of the correct file. It doesn't match the checksum of the dummy file but I don't see how that is an issue (it is even good since the user immediately notices that something is wrong with the dummy file). Another possibility is to tell makepkg to skip the integrity check.
And *if* we go for solution 2, it should indeed be well-documented.
Best, Marcel
I am against dummy files and would even prefer dropping the patch in favor of a clean processing of files.
What do you mean by "clean processing of files"? I consider the version with plausibility checks to be cleaner than the version without.
Correct me if I am wrong but since the information is extracted from the .SRCINFO file, the package ttf-m-win8 should work just fine. The only problem is which files are delivered and which shell be downloaded. As things stand right now everything with " ://" or "lp:" in its filename is considered an URL and therefore the present of the file is not checked. This would potentially ignore cases where those files are omitted though not downloadable. However considering that this will help the vast majority where this schema fits, the minority of missing warnings are neglectable.
Sorry, but I do not follow your argument. The patch uses the same mechanism as makepkg to check whether a file is local.