Enhance livecheck to check not only version but also checksums

Mojca Miklavec mojca at macports.org
Wed Mar 21 02:16:32 UTC 2018


On 21 March 2018 at 00:13, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Mar 20, 2018, at 09:26, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> Do you also want to support signatures then?
>> Public keys are pretty long though, but they usually don't change.
>>
>> One example: https://waf.io
>
> I have given no thought to the question of adding the ability for MacPorts to verify signatures. If you want to discuss it, I'd prefer you open a separate thread so we can keep this thread focused on livecheck improvements.

I have no opinion about whether or not this should be added. But since
you started discussing integrity in some, it felt to me like this was
at least somehow related and that the interface could be similar. The
implementation is probably way more complex though.

Mojca


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