On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 02:01:08PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2021/09/06 14:48, Marc Espie wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 01:34:57PM -0600, Aaron Bieber wrote:
> > >
> > > Kurt Mosiejczuk <[email protected]> writes:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 12:04:42PM -0600, Aaron Bieber wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> How many is multiple? :D - the Go stuff is gonna get ugly(er?)!
> > > >
> > > >> net/go-ipfs for example, the output is useless because it's so big :D
> > > >
> > > > Does go actually publish base64 SHA256 hashes for their modules?
> > > > If not, it's not the size of the output that makes that useless.
> > >
> > > They do, but checking by hand is redundant as the checks are all built
> > > into the tooling.
> > >
> > > For example: https://sum.golang.org/lookup/suah.dev/[email protected]
> > >
> > > (the h1:blablabl stuff is an encoded sha256 hash)
> > >
> > > >
> > > >> Maybe it can be conditional.. somehow?
> > > >
> > > > Why? How often do you do a "make makesum"? I do it like once per port
> > > > update and verify my distfiles.
> > > >
> > >
> > > It seems like I do it quite often. Though maybe it just stands out
> > > because the Go lists are always sofaking big!
> > >
> > > > --Kurt
> >
> > I think it would be more sense to append it to a file, having the name
> > be /dev/null by default, for those few individuals who actually need this
> >
>
> I really would like it to not calculate at all if it's not needed, some
> of the distfiles are huge and sha256 and md5 is definitely non-trivial,
> especially over NFS
>
>
So, yeah, empty instead of redirect to /dev/null
I think it's nicer to >>${SOMEFILE}... people can always do /dev/tty if they
want to see it on screen, and that way it doesn't clutter the display after
the diff.
.e.g,
.if !empty(SOMEVAR)
md6 >>${SOMEVAR}; sha256 >>${SOMEVAR}
.endif
(or the corresponding exec form)
only thing missing would be a variable name.
LEGACY_CHECKSUMS ?
