Re: Let's avoid using md5 as checksum

2008-02-16 Thread Kevin Van Vechten
This is really a non-issue. The intent of the MD5 in the Portfile is easily identify when a source archive was corrupted during download, or when a 404 file was obtained instead of a source archive. It's not about security, it's about providing a checksum for data -- and to that effect

Re: Let's avoid using md5 as checksum

2008-02-16 Thread David Bruce
Hi, I'm the upstream maintainer of tuxmath, and I also want to add it to MacPorts and become the port maintainer for it. So, regarding checksums, I take it that it would be best (from the point of view of MacPorts, and probably anyone else who cares to verify that they are getting unaltered

Re: Let's avoid using md5 as checksum

2008-02-16 Thread Rainer Müller
Ryan Schmidt wrote: Of course, this won't make Rainer happy. :-) http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/browser/trunk/dports/ editors/vim/files/patchlist?rev=34037 Look at all them pretty md5s... These md5s are released upstream [1] and I just use them. Of course I now could also

Re: 72 hours are not enough for maintainers?

2008-02-16 Thread js
Hi Blair, If Maintainers think so, that's fine with me. I just guessed 72 hours are not practical to accept for maintainers. On 2/16/08, Blair Zajac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: js wrote: Hi, MacPorts Guide says The maintainer should apply the patches and close the ticket within 72

Fwd: [MacPorts] #14342: python25 drops modules by default, but python25 doesn't

2008-02-16 Thread js
# Moving from Trac ticket #14342 No, py25-foo can have different dependencies than py-foo. I don't know what you wanted to tell us with this. I meant if we would change python24 to drop some standard modules like the current python25 port does, py-foo and py25-foo's dependencies would be the

Splitting the guide

2008-02-16 Thread Juan Manuel Palacios
Hey guys! The guide is advancing so nicely that I'm afraid we've hit the point when it's maybe becoming a tad too large for a single page, wouldn't y'all think? Every time I have to load a section of the guide a have a moment of hesitation in fear of loading such a

Re: Let's avoid using md5 as checksum

2008-02-16 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Feb 16, 2008, at 05:41, David Bruce wrote: I'm the upstream maintainer of tuxmath, and I also want to add it to MacPorts and become the port maintainer for it. So, regarding checksums, I take it that it would be best (from the point of view of MacPorts, and probably anyone else

unison and protocol breakage

2008-02-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
The unison port has recently been upgraded from 2.13 to 2.27. The problem is that the protocol has changed between these versions, and unison 2.13 can't talk to unison 2.27: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14172 The only solution that can work in every case (because users

Re: tuxmath Portfile

2008-02-16 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Feb 11, 2008, at 17:38, David Bruce wrote: After some study of the guide (as well as several existing Portfiles), I've taken my first stab at writing a Portfile for tuxmath and submitted it as trac ticket #14279. How can I start testing it to see what needs to be fixed? Tuxmath

Committing new port submissions (was: Re: Let's avoid using md5 as checksum)

2008-02-16 Thread Rainer Müller
Ryan Schmidt wrote: Rainer has commented on your ticket so once you review those changes I imagine he'll commit it. Yes, that was my intention :-) I saw your earlier message but did not have time to deal with it. Sometimes we're just short on time and tickets get forgotten. That's often