[arch-general] Severity of Failed checksum for PKGBUILD

Lukas Jirkovsky l.jirkovsky at gmail.com
Thu Feb 19 22:24:42 UTC 2015


On 19 February 2015 at 21:42, Doug Newgard <scimmia at archlinux.info> wrote:
> You can't. If upstream provides a checksum, that gives you some verification,
> but since github doesn't, there's no way to verify any of it.

I don't know about github, but with bitbucket the checksums of these
generated tarballs may change occasionally as I had this issue with
luxrender. However, the sources were always the same, it was the
metadata that changed.


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