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Date:      Wed, 8 May 2002 22:40:47 +0200
From:      Ernst de Haan <znerd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/java/bsh distinfo
Message-ID:  <200205082041.WAA10159@smtp.hccnet.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20020508130625.B87193@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <200205080923.g489N1u60793@freefall.freebsd.org> <200205081906.VAA04867@smtp.hccnet.nl> <20020508130625.B87193@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Hi Kris,

> > How am I supposed to do that?
>
> diff -ruN old_directory/ new_directory/

In this case I was looking into a bento problem which the maintainer has not 
solved in a long time. I do not have the old directory, because I never 
installed the port before.

> > What exactly am I supposed to document?
>
> MD5 checksums change for a reason.  Sometimes it's a trivial change
> which is not worth bumping PORTREVISION for; sometimes they are
> significant changes which warrant a PORTREVISION bump; and very rarely
> it's a malicious change for which the checksum should absolutely not
> have been changed in the first place.

Okay. I agree it's a good thing to document this, when possible.

Thanks for pointing this out.


Sincerely,


Ernst

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