From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Sep 2 22:21:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4953237B400; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 22:21:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [65.88.244.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8817943E4A; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 22:21:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from zaphod ([204.68.178.35] helo=softweyr.com) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17m67l-00068U-00; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 23:21:13 -0600 Message-ID: <3D7446BC.E2A0BBBE@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 23:21:00 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Jordan K Hubbard , Mikhail Teterin , arch@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pkg-routines ignore the recorded md5 checksums References: <20020831070918.GA72640@xor.obsecurity.org> <049EDAFB-BCB3-11D6-A85D-0003938C7B7E@queasyweasel.com> <20020831073845.GA74568@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 12:26:51AM -0700, Jordan K Hubbard wrote: > > Hysterical Raisins. We didn't even think of adding md5 checksums until > > about a year or so after the pkg_install tools were done, and there was > > concern at that point that adding another @foo directive would create a > > set of "new packages" which didn't work with the older package tools. > > So it was decided to simply make them a special type of comment, which > > the previous package tools would simply ignore. In hindsight, of > > course... > > Perhaps we should change plist.c to make unrecognised commands > non-fatal, so we can have more flexibility about extending the > commandset in future. And able to turn them off (-q) or default to off with warnings if wanted (-v). ?? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message