Re: [MacPorts] #26926: new Portfile for tclap

2010-10-25 Thread Joshua Root
On 2010-10-25 18:37 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Oct 25, 2010, at 02:15, Titus von Boxberg wrote: >> Are md5 checksums deprecated? > > They are to me, though we haven't made an official statement about that. Should probably have a lint warning when using md5 alone, but removing it when it's being u

Re: [MacPorts] #26926: new Portfile for tclap

2010-10-25 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Oct 25, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: as far as MacPorts users are concerned port maintainers produce the authoritative hashes. Says it all for me. Bradley Giesbrecht ___ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org h

Re: [MacPorts] #26926: new Portfile for tclap

2010-10-25 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
> We haven't decided, but in my mind, they aren't if upstream provides a md5 > checksum. I'd simply point to the default hashes for MacPorts, which are presently sha1/rmd160. There's really no difference between the checksums we provide and what upstream might provide; as far as MacPorts users

Re: [MacPorts] #26926: new Portfile for tclap

2010-10-25 Thread Blair Zajac
On 10/25/2010 12:37 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Oct 25, 2010, at 02:15, Titus von Boxberg wrote: Thanks! Please note that supported_archs seems to be an undocumented feature (besides in Changelog of 1.9.0). Maybe you should introduce it in the guide. Correct, supported_archs and several other

Re: [MacPorts] #26926: new Portfile for tclap

2010-10-25 Thread Titus von Boxberg
Am 25.10.2010 um 09:37 schrieb Ryan Schmidt: > On Oct 25, 2010, at 02:15, Titus von Boxberg wrote: > >> Thanks! >> >> Please note that supported_archs seems to be an undocumented feature >> (besides in Changelog of 1.9.0). Maybe you should introduce it >> in the guide. > > Correct, supported_ar

Re: [MacPorts] #26926: new Portfile for tclap

2010-10-25 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Oct 25, 2010, at 02:57, Anders F Björklund wrote: > Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >>> Are md5 checksums deprecated? >> >> They are to me, though we haven't made an official statement about that. > > Just like crc32, the md5 checksums are useful for a "quick check"... > > They are just deprecated fo

Re: [MacPorts] #26926: new Portfile for tclap

2010-10-25 Thread Anders F Björklund
Ryan Schmidt wrote: Are md5 checksums deprecated? They are to me, though we haven't made an official statement about that. Just like crc32, the md5 checksums are useful for a "quick check"... They are just deprecated for "security" or "validation", use SHA too. Should move from sha1 to s

Re: [MacPorts] #26926: new Portfile for tclap

2010-10-25 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Oct 25, 2010, at 02:15, Titus von Boxberg wrote: > Thanks! > > Please note that supported_archs seems to be an undocumented feature > (besides in Changelog of 1.9.0). Maybe you should introduce it > in the guide. Correct, supported_archs and several other features are not documented in the g

Re: [MacPorts] #26926: new Portfile for tclap

2010-10-25 Thread Titus von Boxberg
Thanks! Please note that supported_archs seems to be an undocumented feature (besides in Changelog of 1.9.0). Maybe you should introduce it in the guide. Are md5 checksums deprecated? Regards Titus Am 24.10.2010 um 22:55 schrieb MacPorts: > #26926: new Portfile for tc