On Thu, 10 May 2012 17:40:54 +0200 "Jason A. Donenfeld" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Ciaran McCreesh > <[email protected]> wrote: > > The issue is that developers would have to make and commit their > > changes, sync, do the downloading, update the exhereses and then > > squish the commit. That's an extra two messy steps that we haven't > > found a way to solve. > > Why? What about bumping their exheres, run "cave download" or whatever > to do the fetching, update the hash, and then after commit their > change, push, and sync? There only has to be one commit. Why the need > for a squish?
a) Developers don't generally know the download URLs themselves. b) Even when the URLs are known, there are some places that use weird download methods that don't particularly like the specific ways wget is used by the PM, and we need to know that. c) Even when the URLs are known and when we know the mirrors are fine, some packages have an awful lot of downloads. Developers don't typically fetch these by hand because it's too much of a pain. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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