Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 23:21:00 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@queasyweasel.com>, Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>, arch@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pkg-routines ignore the recorded md5 checksums Message-ID: <3D7446BC.E2A0BBBE@softweyr.com> References: <20020831070918.GA72640@xor.obsecurity.org> <049EDAFB-BCB3-11D6-A85D-0003938C7B7E@queasyweasel.com> <20020831073845.GA74568@xor.obsecurity.org>
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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). ??
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