[98388] trunk/dports/databases

[Rainer Müller]

On 2012-10-05 18:32, MK-MacPorts at techno.ms wrote:
> On Oct 5, 2012, at 6:27 PM, Craig Treleaven wrote:
>> I can't find an 'official' reference for it, but I believe GitHub says that 7 characters are unique (7**26).
> I see.

They are not unique, it's just unlikely that conflicts would occur in
such a large domain.

>> Anyway, if it were not unique, the MacPorts checksums would alert the user.  Seems safe to me.
> Checksums?
> If sources are pulled via git checksums are also computed?
> SURE? I never saw them in the logs...

The github port group fetches a tarball from the web interface instead
of cloning the git repository. If a port uses 'fetch.type git', the
checksum phase is skipped.

Rainer