Re: Storing .deb checksums in ADMINDIR/status?

2015-06-25 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Guillem Jover (2015-06-26 06:30:39) > On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 09:31:05 +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > > Some people suggested that we should record a checksum of the `.deb` > > installed as a way to unambiguously referring to a specific package. > > In principle the tuple pkgname-version

Re: Storing .deb checksums in ADMINDIR/status?

2015-06-25 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 09:31:05 +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > Some people suggested that we should record a checksum of the `.deb` > installed as a way to unambiguously referring to a specific package. In principle the tuple pkgname-version-arch should be unique per archive, otherwise bad-thin

Re: Storing .deb checksums in ADMINDIR/status?

2015-06-24 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 09:31:05AM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > But, as far as I know, this information is currently not recorded by > dpkg and there is no way to know for sure which `.deb` has been used for > a package currently installed. I have a couple of memories where this > could have been

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Storing .deb checksums in ADMINDIR/status?

2015-06-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Tue 2015-06-23 03:31:05 -0400, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > Some people suggested that we should record a checksum of the `.deb` > installed as a way to unambiguously referring to a specific package. > The main benefit that I can think of is that it would allow to directly > retrieve the file from sn

Storing .deb checksums in ADMINDIR/status?

2015-06-23 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Hi! While thinking one more time about the current specification for `.buildinfo` files [1], I remembered one unresolved question. The `Build-Environment` field currently has the same syntax as `Built-Using`: a list of packages and their exact version. This works fine but might not be optimal. S