On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 05:29:56AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   i note in the manual section on wget Fetcher the reference to the
> single supported "md5sum" parameter.  so ...
> 
> * it's not just that fetcher that supports that param, is it?  i can
> see some md5sum-related methods defined in __init__.py -- doesn't that
> suggest that *all* Fetchers theoretically support that parameter?
> 
> * more to the point, is anything actually checking those md5sum
> values?  i thought the checksums.ini file was used for md5 and sha256
> sums.
> 
>   so what happens if a .bb file has a SRC_URI directive that defines
> that parameter?  is it processed?  does it take precedence over the
> checksums file?  thanks.

Please check the outcome of OEDEM'09 on the checksums:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded/27465

> p.s.  as an actual example, here's a snippet from checksums.ini:
> 
> [http://download.berlios.de/net-tools/net-tools-1.60.tar.bz2]
> md5=888774accab40217dde927e21979c165
> sha256=7ae4dd6d44d6715f18e10559ffd270511b6e55a8900ca54fbebafe0ae6cf7d7b

This is the old way.

> and here's SRC_URI from recipes/net-tools/net-tools_1.60.bb:
> 
> SRC_URI =
> "http://download.berlios.de/${PN}/${PN}-${PV}.tar.bz2;md5sum=888774accab40217dde927e21979c165
> \

And this is the new preferred way.

>   note that, yes, the md5sum values match.  but why have that info in
> both places?  what's the standard these days?

-- 
Denys
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