Rainer Müller wrote: > 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 > > How about adding a value for distcheck.check of "checksum" that would provide this functionality so there is a choice? As some pointed out, this can be a very heavy operation for large distributions with many sites.
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