On 10/15/2018 08:05 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Mon, 2018-10-15 at 13:34 +0200, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: >> Hi, >> >> in pkg_nofetch, beyond to "direct the user to download relevant source >> files", >> I've found it useful to tell the user which filesystem directory to put the >> files into once downloaded. >> >> Beyond that, I've also found it useful to tell the user whether a relevant >> source file is 'already there' or 'still missing'. >> >> Since the EAPI 6 related update to pkg_* phases to not have access to DISTDIR >> (even in earlier EAPI) any more, I'm wondering if both informations are still >> available to pkg_nofetch in one or another way. >> >> Any idea? >> >> Or is my only option to reduce the information to "all these files need to be >> put in your DISTDIR", requiring the user to find out both the right DISTDIR >> and which of the listed files are still missing herself? >> > > How would you know whether the file in DISTDIR is correct and complete? > Well, pkg_nofetch is called only if some files are still missing, so portage really should have checked them before, and eventually renamed invalid files to "checksum_failure", no?
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