[pacman-dev] [PATCH 1/4] Recommend using "updpkgsums" in PKGBUILD prototypes instead of "makepkg -g"

[Allan McRae]

On 19/01/14 20:24, Emil Lundberg wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 6:18 PM, William Giokas <1007380 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 09:29:35PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
>>> On 17/01/14 08:18, Jason St. John wrote:
>>>> -md5sums=() #generate with 'makepkg -g'
>>>> +md5sums=() # generate with 'updpkgsums'
>>>>
>>>
>>> We can not do that.  updpkgsums is a contrib/ script so may not be
>>> installed on all systems using pacman/makepkg.
>>>
>>
>> Just to clarify that, Arch packages contrib with pacman (there's no
>> pacman-contrib, just pacman). There may be other people that are using
>> pacman but not Arch and don't want the contrib scripts.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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>>
>>
> 
> How about recommending both, then?
> # generate with 'makepkg -g' or 'updpkgsums'
> 

I'd be more happy removing this altogether.  It encourages the practise
of not checking the checksums provided upstream.

Allan