On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeff wrote: >>> >>> Patch [1] extends the --skipinteg option allow the generation of a source >>> tarball without requiring the checking of the integrity checks >> >> You've given the what, but what is the why? If the source integrity is >> flawed, then the generated source package is flawed. This seems like >> something that should be safeguarded against, IMO. >> > > I can come up with two use cases: > > 1) making a PKGBUILD for a snapshot release that is always accessible from > some sort of LATEST release directory symlink. Many projects use something > like that. That way the PKGBUILD does not need updated every time a > snapshot is release. While it may be argued that it is better to use a > svn/cvs/git/etc PKGBUILD, in many cases the snapshots are generally sanity > checked before release. > > 2) This happens to me occasionally. Someone sends me a PKGBUILD they can > not get working. I see an obvious error, fix it and send the PKGBUILD back > saying "try this" because I really do not want to download the > sources/dependencies to check myself. >
Sounds reasonable to me.
