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

[Xavier]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

Sounds reasonable to me.