Re: bug#341: Kernel/device-list checksum problem

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Charles Lacour wrote:

> Package: kernel/device-list
> Version: RELEASE_lnx-bbc_2_0
>
> The device list (gar/kernel/device-list/download/devices.txt) comes from
> www.lanana.org/docs/device-list. They don't (apparently) have versions.
>
> The file changed recently, and someone filed an updated checksum.
>
> Unfortunately, when you use CVS to check out the RELEASE_lnx-bbc_2_0
> tag, you get the _old_ checksum, so you have an old checksum and a new
> file.
>
> The ideal solution would be a versioned copy of devices.txt (or maybe a
> CVS timestamp). Another possibility would be to keep it in the GAR CVS
> tree (it's not very large).
>
> Short term, I would guess somebody will have to manually override CVS,
> so that when somebody checks out "RELEASE_lnx-bb_2_0", they'll get the
> new checksum along with the new devices.txt file.  Sort of defeats the
> whole purpose of CVS, but at least it'll compile...

devices.txt downloaded 10 seconds ago:
4fe7eed5b7a3eb1f4b4167818ffcf601

checksum in CVS:
4fe7eed5b7a3eb1f4b4167818ffcf601  download/devices.txt

Your garchive probably needs to be updated?

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