[pacman-dev] [patch] makepkg: update checksums (was: add checksums and resume)

[Dan McGee]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister at gmail.com> wrote:
>> grep -r "&& md5sums=(" /var/abs | grep "/PKGBUILD:" | sed 's/:.*//' gives:
>>
>> /var/abs/community/jdk/PKGBUILD
>> /var/abs/community/jdk/PKGBUILD
>> /var/abs/community/jre/PKGBUILD
>> /var/abs/community/jre/PKGBUILD
>> /var/abs/community/libvdpau/PKGBUILD
>> /var/abs/community/tuxguitar/PKGBUILD
>> /var/abs/extra/nvidia-96xx-utils/PKGBUILD
>> /var/abs/extra/nvidia-96xx/PKGBUILD
>> /var/abs/extra/nvidia-173xx/PKGBUILD
>> /var/abs/extra/nvidia/PKGBUILD
>> /var/abs/extra/nxclient/PKGBUILD
>> /var/abs/extra/nvidia-utils/PKGBUILD
>> /var/abs/extra/nvidia-173xx-utils/PKGBUILD
>>
>> Total pkgs affected: 13 out of 4000+ (provided all PKGBUILDs are "standard",
>> i.e "&&" is on the same line as ${integ}sums in this case integ=md5)
>>
>
> Making the assumption that pkgbuilds are standard is really looking
> for troubles and/or wrong and false results :)
>
> I don't want to support multi-arch sums, there is an infinite number
> of ways to write them, so it's impossible to deal with that.
>
> What I would find acceptable is just to delete the standard and easy
> checksums, without affecting anything else. And appending the new
> checksums at the end.
>
> Even better would be to replace the standard and easy checksums in
> place , and just append the others at the end of the pkgbuild.

Just remember this- if we release a feature that is half-baked, we
will pay for it. Look at optdepends and how many people think it is
their right to have those parsed and we need options to install them
and blah blah blah.

People will try to use this for all varieties of md5sums. People will
file bug reports when it doesn't work on crazy PKGBUILDs. And most of
all, people will be pissed if we mess up their PKGBUILD in any way,
even if it was their fault.

-Dan