Hi, Nicolas Graves <ngra...@ngraves.fr> skribis:
> Has there already been some discussion about custom hash updaters? I > have written an import module for libreoffice, and we have access to the > sha256 hash in for example > > https://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/24.2.6/libreoffice-24.2.6.2.tar.xz.sha256 > > which would make it trivial to update without having to download 267MiB > of data twice. > > However, %method-updates doesn't seem to allow such a flexibility for > now. Maybe a custom field for a function in <upstream-updater> could be > possible? WDYT? This hasn’t been discussed before, but allow me to be skeptical. :-) First because if you run ‘guix refresh -u’, surely you’ll want to download the file (and note that it downloads it once, not twice, because the file goes into the store). Second because I think we want to encourage packagers to authenticate source tarballs, and files containing lists of hashes are not helpful for that. Does that make sense? Ludo’.
