svn commit: r460727 - in head/devel: p4 p4/files p4api p4api/files

[Mathieu Arnold]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 08:43:52AM -0700, Alan Somers wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 12:13 AM, Antoine Brodin <antoine at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 8:07 PM, Alan Somers <asomers at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > Author: asomers (src committer)
> > > Date: Fri Feb  2 19:07:21 2018
> > > New Revision: 460727
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/460727
> > >
> > > Log:
> > >   devel/p4 devel/p4api: build from source
> > >
> > >   Build devel/p4 and devel/p4api from source rather than use the prebuilt
> > >   binary downloads. This fixes p4api on FreeBSD 12.  The ports
> > originally used
> > >   the binaries because source wasn't available until a few years ago.  By
> > >   happy accident, building from source also makes the ports available on
> > >   non-Intel architectures.
> > >
> > >   PR:           225613
> > >   Reviewed by:  brd
> > >   Approved by:  brd (ports)
> > >   Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corp
> > >   Differential Revision:        https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14162
> >
> > Those 2 ports still fail to "make checksum".
> >
> > Antoine
> >
> 
> Thanks for the heads up.  I think I see what's going on here.  Perforce
> seems to be rebuilding those zip files with a cron job that runs once per
> day or so.  The file content of the zipped files hasn't changed since
> 1-Feb, but all of their timestamps have.  This asinine behavior is going to
> make it impossible for ports to verify the checksum, though we can still
> verify the file size.  I'll try to teach the port to do that.

Do not teach the port how to ignore checksum.
It would be better to ask upstream to not do whatever thing they are
doing.
Failing that, and if possible, hosting a copy of the "working" distfiles
in LOCAL/something.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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