Re: Checksums

2002-07-27 Thread Martin Schröder
FOO if its version is the same as required or > newer; backward compatibility of newer versions is assumed. You're talking about versions and timestamps. The question was checksums on pristine sources -- which will bark if the sources are changed somehow, wether by the maintainer or somebody else. B

Re: Checksums (was: Encoding the name in the file contents)

2002-07-26 Thread Boris Veytsman
> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:01:40 +0200 > From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Martin_Schr=F6der?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On 2002-07-25 16:46:57 -0700, Walter Landry wrote: > > Um, no. In the case where package FOO needs package BAR, > > \NeedsTeXFormat has BAR tell FOO that BAR is a good version. Using > > I

Re: Checksums

2002-07-26 Thread Walter Landry
Martin Schröder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2002-07-25 16:46:57 -0700, Walter Landry wrote: > > Um, no. In the case where package FOO needs package BAR, > > \NeedsTeXFormat has BAR tell FOO that BAR is a good version. Using > > It can tell BAR only that FOO is the version BAR knows. What if

Checksums (was: Encoding the name in the file contents)

2002-07-26 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2002-07-25 16:46:57 -0700, Walter Landry wrote: > Um, no. In the case where package FOO needs package BAR, > \NeedsTeXFormat has BAR tell FOO that BAR is a good version. Using It can tell BAR only that FOO is the version BAR knows. What if FOO is a newer but compatible version? Best regards