On 2021/09/06 14:48, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 01:34:57PM -0600, Aaron Bieber wrote:
> > 
> > Kurt Mosiejczuk <k...@cranky.work> writes:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 12:04:42PM -0600, Aaron Bieber wrote:
> > >
> > >> How many is multiple? :D - the Go stuff is gonna get ugly(er?)!
> > >
> > >> net/go-ipfs for example, the output is useless because it's so big :D
> > >
> > > Does go actually publish base64 SHA256 hashes for their modules?
> > > If not, it's not the size of the output that makes that useless.
> > 
> > They do, but checking by hand is redundant as the checks are all built
> > into the tooling.
> > 
> > For example: https://sum.golang.org/lookup/suah.dev/ogvt@v1.1.0
> > 
> > (the h1:blablabl stuff is an encoded sha256 hash)
> > 
> > >
> > >> Maybe it can be conditional.. somehow?
> > >
> > > Why? How often do you do a "make makesum"? I do it like once per port
> > > update and verify my distfiles.
> > >
> > 
> > It seems like I do it quite often. Though maybe it just stands out
> > because the Go lists are always sofaking big!
> > 
> > > --Kurt
> 
> I think it would be more sense to append it to a file, having the name
> be /dev/null by default, for those few individuals who actually need this
> 

I really would like it to not calculate at all if it's not needed, some
of the distfiles are huge and sha256 and md5 is definitely non-trivial,
especially over NFS

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