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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

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