[32441] trunk/base/src/port1.0/portchecksum.tcl

[Randall Wood]

On 1 Jan 2008, at 17:00, James Berry wrote:

> Hi Ryan,
>
> On Jan 1, 2008, at 12:56 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Jan 1, 2008, at 11:09, jberry at macports.org wrote:
>>
>>> Revision: 32441
>>>          http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/ 
>>> 32441
>>> Author:   jberry at macports.org
>>> Date:     2008-01-01 09:09:21 -0800 (Tue, 01 Jan 2008)
>>>
>>> Log Message:
>>> -----------
>>> If checksum is mismatched, and in verbose mode, present a  
>>> corrected pre-fabricated
>>> checksum statement to make it easy to update a port.
>>
>> That does, of course, make it easier for people to just blindly  
>> copy and paste, rather than thinking about whether they should be  
>> changing the portfile checksum at all.
>
> Yes, I did consider this argument for why it might not be a good  
> idea, but quickly came to the conclusion that taking away the  
> drudge work will hopefully give people _more_ time to consider some  
> of those other factors. I don't believe that this is a case where  
> we're putting a hair-trigger on a gun, or something; we're making  
> the fife of a maintainer easier. I don't think this will make it  
> more or less likely that someone will ignore the root cause behind  
> a bad checksum.
>
> Besides, I think 99% of the time spent in updating checksums is for  
> updated versions, rather than files which miraculously change in  
> the night. Once again, hopefully this will make it more likely that  
> maintainers will consider verifying the checksum against a signed  
> version from the distro.

You already get this in debug mode (-d) anyway (or is it debug and  
verbose mode (-dv)?).

Randall Wood
randall.h.wood at alexandriasoftware.com
http://shyramblings.blogspot.com

"The rules are simple: The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes.  
All the
rest is just philosophy."