Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 19:59:54 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.linux-rpm.mk bsd.port.mk bsd.qt.mk ports/accessibility/ktts Makefile ports/astro/marble Makefile ports/audio/festvox-us1-mbrola Makefile ports/audio/py-musicbrainz Makefile ports/chinese/acroread8-zh_CN Makefile ... Message-ID: <4CCCDBAA.60708@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20101030164701.ab200d1e.stas@FreeBSD.org> References: <201010282100.o9SL0LmC022868@repoman.freebsd.org> <20101030164701.ab200d1e.stas@FreeBSD.org>
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On 10/30/10 16:47, Stanislav Sedov wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:00:21 +0000 (UTC) > Erwin Lansing<erwin@FreeBSD.org> mentioned: > >> Deprecate md5 in favour of sha256 checksums. md5 checksums will no longer >> be generated or checked, and will be silently ignored for now. Also, >> generalize the MD5_FILE macro to DISTINFO_FILO. >> >> PR: 149657 >> Submitted by: rene >> Approved by: portmgr >> Tested on: pointyhat i386 7-exp > > Hmm, was it discussed somewhere? The PR has been there for months, and of course eventually removing the MD5s was discussed years ago when SHA256 was added. :) But seriously, you could not have been expected to see either one of those. > This change broke portupgrade badly. :-( Portmaster too. > I'd prefer at least a heads-up for such a major change next time. > Or did I missed it? While I am very glad that the portmgr team tested and committed this update it would have been nice to send a head's up so that tool authors had the opportunity to get their stuff updated first. I asked (privately) numerous times for a status update, and never received one. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/
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