On Aug 29,2003 11:09:56 -0400, David R. Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > >On Aug 29,2003 23:57:27 +0900, Peter O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >> >>On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 11:41 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: >> >>> Hi Peter. This one should be structured as a warning to developers, >>> not >>> to users (similar to the "duplicate fields" warning). In fact, there >>> is >>> already a warning if you do "fink fetch foo" and foo has no MD5-sum. >> >>Okay, thought the user might like the choice to abort installing >>something where the checksum was not specified in the info file. >> >>Peter >>-- > >Sure, I have no objection to that. But what I'm suggesting is that users >should never be given info files with missing MD5-sums... > > -- Dave >
In fact, I think I would take it one step further: if there is no MD5-sum, fink can print out the MD5-sum it calculates (for the benefit of developers) but should then quit and refuse to compile the package. -- Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
