Re: How we announce MacPorts changes (was: Re: Enhance livecheck to check not only version but also checksums)

2018-03-21 Thread db
On 21 Mar 2018, at 00:31, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Mar 20, 2018, at 09:20, db wrote: >> macports-announce seems scant to me. > Intentionally. We only post there when we have something to announce, which > is seldom. I still think things like python default and protobuff changes, or enhancements

Re: Enhance livecheck to check not only version but also checksums

2018-03-20 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 21 March 2018 at 00:13, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Mar 20, 2018, at 09:26, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> Do you also want to support signatures then? >> Public keys are pretty long though, but they usually don't change. >> >> One example: https://waf.io > > I have given no thought to the question of

Re: How we announce MacPorts changes (was: Re: Enhance livecheck to check not only version but also checksums)

2018-03-20 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 20, 2018, at 09:20, db wrote: > On 20 Mar 2018, at 14:54, Rainer Müller wrote: >> https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-announce/ >> https://github.com/macports/macports-base/blob/master/ChangeLog > > macports-announce seems scant to me. Intentionally. We only post there when we

Re: Enhance livecheck to check not only version but also checksums

2018-03-20 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 20, 2018, at 09:26, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 20 March 2018 at 00:59, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> It's been pointed out before than when updating a port to a new version, one >> should not just update the version and checksums in the portfile; one should >> also verify at least one of those

Re: Enhance livecheck to check not only version but also checksums

2018-03-20 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 20 March 2018 at 00:59, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > It's been pointed out before than when updating a port to a new version, one > should not just update the version and checksums in the portfile; one should > also verify at least one of those checksums with the ones published by the > developers -

Re: Enhance livecheck to check not only version but also checksums

2018-03-20 Thread db
On 20 Mar 2018, at 14:54, Rainer Müller wrote: > https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-announce/ > https://github.com/macports/macports-base/blob/master/ChangeLog macports-announce seems scant to me. I suggest using a GitHub issue, like Linuxbrew does, https://github.com/Linuxbrew/brew/i

Re: Enhance livecheck to check not only version but also checksums

2018-03-20 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2018-03-20 14:29, db wrote: > On 20 Mar 2018, at 00:59, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> Once that's done, it makes it easier to implement a better "bump" command -- >> one that can use any published checksums and compute the rest, and warn if >> no checksums were published. >> https://trac.macports.or

Re: Enhance livecheck to check not only version but also checksums

2018-03-20 Thread db
On 20 Mar 2018, at 00:59, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Once that's done, it makes it easier to implement a better "bump" command -- > one that can use any published checksums and compute the rest, and warn if no > checksums were published. > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/53851 Sorry, this one is of

Enhance livecheck to check not only version but also checksums

2018-03-19 Thread Ryan Schmidt
It's been pointed out before than when updating a port to a new version, one should not just update the version and checksums in the portfile; one should also verify at least one of those checksums with the ones published by the developers -- assuming the developers publish them. It would be gr