[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: rework --skip-integ

[Allan McRae]

Jeff wrote:
>> Patch [1] extends the --skipinteg option allow the generation of a 
>> source tarball without requiring the checking of the integrity checks 
>>     
>
> You've given the what, but what is the why? If the source integrity is
> flawed, then the generated source package is flawed. This seems like
> something that should be safeguarded against, IMO.
>   

I can come up with two use cases:

1) making a PKGBUILD for a snapshot release that is always accessible 
from some sort of LATEST release directory symlink.  Many projects use 
something like that.  That way the PKGBUILD does not need updated every 
time a snapshot is release.  While it may be argued that it is better to 
use a svn/cvs/git/etc PKGBUILD, in many cases the snapshots are 
generally sanity checked before release.

2) This happens to me occasionally.  Someone sends me a PKGBUILD they 
can not get working.  I see an obvious error, fix it and send the 
PKGBUILD back saying "try this" because I really do not want to download 
the sources/dependencies to check myself.

Allan