Fink CVS now has some new fields: Source-MD5, Source1-MD5, etc. I already converted a few packages in base/ and util/ to use these.
I would like to ask all developers to start using these fields. Just use the md5sum util (part of dpkg) to get the checksum of your source files and add this information to the .info file. For now there is a temporary fink command, "fink checksum", that will loop over all .info files, and if they have an Source-MD5 field, *and* you have the source file, it will check those. If a mismatch is found, a warning is generated. The idea is: everybody now adds these fields. Also everybody runs "fink checksums". This way we can a) check that the checksums we put into the files are correct, and b) if a given source file exists in various versions. Cheers, Max P.S.: in case you wonder about the sender address: this is a secondary email account of mine, SourceForge is now blocking all emails sent via my normal email account (or rather all emails sent via that ISP). I can't really argue with that, though, it seems that this company (1&1 WebHosting, probably the biggest domain hoster in Germany) is using open relay mail servers, and hence more and more places block all mails sent via them. Unlucky for me, but understandable. For now I will use this mail account instead. -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
