Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> writes:

> On Mar 26, 2018, at 00:18, Sean Farley wrote:
>
>>>> -checksums           rmd160  daf92f73deaabf529c3bfa883fbd178b33ca4825 \
>>>> -                    sha256  
>>>> df907126ca75bb7ade45015e681269718b1f1dad7eb2e605fd40efebb8e4fdd3
>>>> +checksums           rmd160  b129990e2a4f2f56dd15b2562b8668ca5a3d615c \
>>>> +                    sha256  
>>>> 1e7d20d20eb26da307d36017461fe4a55f40e947e232739179dbe6412e22ed13
>>> 
>>> Please add size to checksums at your convenience as you update ports.
>> 
>> Ah, ok. Did something change recently?
>
> The possibility to add the size to the checksums was added in MacPorts 2.3.0; 
> I missed it at the time. Rainer added the size to the checksums of port a few 
> months ago, which alerted me to its existence. The size is verified along 
> with the checksums of course. A future version of MacPorts may do more with 
> this information, such as an aggregate file download progress bar if multiple 
> ports are fetched, so we would like all ports to eventually provide this 
> metadata.

Ah, cool.

>> If so, should we output the
>> desired checksum values in 'port -v fetch FOO'? That's how I usually
>> update the checksum values. Or maybe there is another way I missed?
>
> I already made this change in master. We have not released a new version of 
> MacPorts since then.

Oh, very cool. I'll use that then.

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