[75764] trunk/dports/kde/skrooge/Portfile

Jeremy Lavergne jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org
Fri Feb 11 12:58:58 PST 2011


> Why is that what you can do with dist_subdir, like this
> 
> ---
> dist_subdir     ${name}/${version}_${revision}
> ---
> 
> not standard MacPorts' behavior? Doing that by default would avoid the whole checksum trouble right from the start.
> 
> Am I mistaken?

Usually revisions are due to dependency API changes or bug fixes. The majority of cases would mean the behavior of redownloading the distfile is unnecessary.

It's rare that a distfile is secretly updated (checksums change) but it does happen, which is what happened here.

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