SHA256 checksums

Pav Lucistnik pav at FreeBSD.org
Thu Nov 10 05:37:34 PST 2005


On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:16:40 +0200, Vasil Dimov wrote
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:24:05PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > If someone can do this in a way that is 
> > 
> >                *** Careful ***
> > 
> > i.e. they:
> > 
> > * verify that they are not committing random other changes together
> > with the sha checksum
> > 
> > * deal with the fact that 'make checksum' on their machine may not add
> > checksums for all of the files listed in distinfo (and in such a case
> > will actually remove them, breaking the port for others)
> > 
> > then it would be better to do them in batches instead of getting
> > committers to deal with hundreds of individual PRs.
> 
> Ok, here is a tool that takes a ports dir and hacks it, adding 
> sha256 sums for the available distfiles.

Where? Anyway, "make makesum" is not enough?

> A diff from my ports dir can be found at:
> http://vdev.datamax.bg/tmp/ports_sha256.diff.gz
> (655 distfiles available)

Please send-pr it, otherwise it will almost certainly get lost.

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Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>



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