On Tuesday 30 September 2014 08:53:08 Chris Tapp wrote: > On 29 Sep 2014, at 22:59, Burton, Ross <ross.bur...@intel.com> wrote: > > On 29 September 2014 22:36, Chris Tapp <opensou...@keylevel.com> wrote: > >> How would the fetcher handle the file changing after it had already been > >> downloaded and passed a checksum test? Would the change have been > >> detected?> > > The checksum comparison is only done at fetch. > > https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5571 talks about > > extending that to verify the checksums at do_unpack() to catch > > situations like this. > > I'm not sure this is quite the same - in this case the (downloaded) file and > checksum would have matched but the remote file has changed. > > I don't think there's a lot that can be done about this other than try and > persuade people not to change published files ;-)
Every time an upstream does this we should tell them how much pain it causes us. Maybe then they might think twice about doing it. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto