On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 06:50:28PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Harald Braumann] > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:41:26PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > > > > > [Harald Braumann] > > > > > Given a .deb, turning the data.tar.gz into foo.md5sums is a SMOP. > > > > > This could be before, during, or after the deb is unpacked. > > > > > > > If you create the hashes at unpack time, you don't catch errors that > > > > happen during unpack. > > > > > > You mean errors reading the data.tar.gz file? That is what the gzip > > > checksum is for, as I said later in my email. > > > > Errors writing a file. > > Did you read the text you quoted? > > Given a .deb, turning the data.tar.gz into foo.md5sums is a SMOP. > > (By "SMOP", I meant "simple matter of programming".) > > This has nothing to do with writing a file, except writing > /var/lib/dpkg/info/foo.md5sums, which is unavoidable.
I think I was finally able to decipher your message. But my other points still hold. And while it is just a matter of programming, simple or not, it already exists in debhelper. So doing it at build time is SMOAOLTDR, by which I mean "simply a matter of adding one line to debian/rules". harry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100304011155.gd16...@nn.nn
