On Thu 19 Nov 2009 at 11:33PM, Danek Duvall wrote:
> Note that the first time you upgrade to a system published with this
> changeset, you'll be fine again, as you'll have re-downloaded all the bits
> that would have verification problems. And since most folks won't be using
> pkg(5) bits with this changeset until that happens, they generally won't
> see any problems.
Perhaps the important thing here is that it would be somewhat unwise
to backpublish this change, and that doing so should be avoided if
possible?
> > Will I be able to install software from e.g. extra/ without republishing
> > with the new hash algorithm?
>
> I'm not sure that any software in extra/ has .SUNW_ctf sections, but as
> long as the file hash matches, it doesn't matter what the content hash is,
> so you'll only see problems on upgrade where we decided not to re-download
> because the content hash was the same.
Right, I spaced on the critical bit that the vast majority of s/w out
there does not in fact have CTF sections. Duh...
-dp
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