Re: Just a note on this --> was(Re: [Fink-devel] Source-MD5 and Homepage fields)

2002-12-20 Thread David
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I disagree. Of course locally made checksums are not as safe as are ones you get from the "vendors". but in the end, if their download packages can be hacked and replaced by wormed packages, so can their websites listing the MD5 checksums.

Re: [Fink-devel] Source-MD5 and Homepage fields

2002-12-19 Thread Carsten Klapp
The "fink checksums" is a good tip, I didn't know about this. Until someone adds "fink validate-all" etc. try my little finkutil script: /sw/fink/dists/experimental/carstenklapp/finkutil :) Carsten On Thursday, December 19, 2002, at 10:08 am, Max Horn wrote: The next step would be run modi

Re: [Fink-devel] Source-MD5 and Homepage fields

2002-12-19 Thread Max Horn
At 6:45 Uhr -0500 19.12.2002, Kyle Moffett wrote: On Wednesday, Dec 18, 2002, at 18:29 US/Eastern, Patrick Näf wrote: I only thought to add ***new*** MD5 sums where they are missing. Something along the lines of find /sw/fink/10.2 -name *.info -exec fgrep -Hic source-md5 {} \; | grep :0$ I wou

Re: [Fink-devel] Source-MD5 and Homepage fields

2002-12-19 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Wednesday, Dec 18, 2002, at 18:29 US/Eastern, Patrick Näf wrote: I only thought to add ***new*** MD5 sums where they are missing. Something along the lines of find /sw/fink/10.2 -name *.info -exec fgrep -Hic source-md5 {} \; | grep :0$ I would group the work by maintainer and, when I have

Re: [Fink-devel] Source-MD5 and Homepage fields

2002-12-18 Thread Patrick Näf
Before starting work I would make a final selfupdate-cvs and then put aside the whole 10.2 tree. I would then add the fields to the .info files, make a ball from the files for every maintainer and... do what? Send it to them personally? Put it on the package submission tracker? This would be

Re: [Fink-devel] Source-MD5 and Homepage fields

2002-12-16 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 07:19 PM, Patrick Näf wrote: Before starting work I would make a final selfupdate-cvs and then put aside the whole 10.2 tree. I would then add the fields to the .info files, make a ball from the files for every maintainer and... do what? Send it to them perso

[Fink-devel] Source-MD5 and Homepage fields

2002-12-16 Thread Patrick Näf
As part of my redemption for the sin of making negative comments on the list :-) I would like to offer the following penance: Quite a number of .info files don't have a Homepage or Source-MD5 field. If you people think that it would be worthwile I would make an effort to provide the necessary i