<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>I agree. What should happen is the port maintainer verifies that the updated download is still safe.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>For future reference, though, instead of editing the Portfile, one can simply do `sudo port install darcs skip_checksum=yes`.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-Kevin Ballard</DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 19, 2007, at 2:17 PM, Denis Bueno wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">This will indeed correct the problem.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It would be nice, however, to see a</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">solution that doesn't subvert the whole raison d'être of MD5 checksums in</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">the first place, namely, to verify the integrity of downloaded files.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Also,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">for an end-user to edit his own port descriptions to fix a problem that will</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">obviously affect the entire user base seems... wrong.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">If someone has verified that the new darcs source tarball at darcs.net is</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">correct, that's fine.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>In that case the Portfile in the macports repo should</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">be updated to reflect the change, so all can benefit.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I can't find anywhere</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(e.g. on darcs-users or darcs-devel) that the tarball has been replaced for</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">any reason, which is suspicious, though probably nothing.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I'm not trying to be mean; but it strikes me as wrong in every way that the</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">only proposed solution to my problem is "just change the checksum in your</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Portfile and you'll be fine".</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>-- </DIV><DIV>Kevin Ballard</DIV><DIV><A href="http://kevin.sb.org">http://kevin.sb.org</A></DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:eridius@macports.org">eridius@macports.org</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.tildesoft.com">http://www.tildesoft.com</A></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>