On Wednesday 11 November 2009 10:17:42 Phil Blundell wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 09:44 +0100, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote: > > This will create an even bigger mess. Sometimes you need to download two > > things, this means you will end up with A_MD5SUM, B_MD5SUM, A_SHASUM, > > B_SHASUM. The main problem with the above is that in contrast to a well > > defined checksums.ini file we will end up with n-variants of the above > > trick. > > The number of recipes where multiple items need to be downloaded and > checksummed is small: this is a tiny minority of the total. So, > although I agree that this case will become more ugly, I don't think > this is going to be a common enough problem that it will represent a > very big deal.
It depends. Currently the instructions to update the checksums.ini are straight forward and branch free, with the above it is impossible to write a branch free documentation that everyone can follow. :) PS: Let me come up with a patch introducing the new variables.. _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
