David Evans wrote: > According to the guide: > > Distcheck reports whether or not the distfile(s) specified in a Portfile > are still available on the developer's download site. > > And it says that the default for distcheck.check is "moddate". So my > undertanding is that it attempts to fetch the moddate for the file which > allows it to test if the site if available and the file exists and that > it is older than > the Portfile.
You are right. Sorry, I was mistakenly assuming it is also comparing checksums... [...] > What I was looking for was a maintainer command (or even external > utility) that would essentially do > the fetch and checksum phases iteratively for each site in master_sites > and report any errors as a > warning message. So I suppose we should extend distcheck to also generate and compare distcheck. I don't think an external tool would be easy to write, since it would only work for fetch.type == "standard". Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
