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| author | Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> | 2015-04-01 00:15:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> | 2015-04-03 14:08:00 +0200 |
| commit | 1286222597d960b31567d30acdc01932c1f37afe (patch) | |
| tree | 318b84e1f8dd420a4613df4ff9383f62f1de261a /docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt | |
| parent | c22fe04a789ef59add62612d1c5ceeadccd4e3ef (diff) | |
| download | buildroot-1286222597d960b31567d30acdc01932c1f37afe.tar.gz buildroot-1286222597d960b31567d30acdc01932c1f37afe.zip | |
package infra: do not check hashes when downloading from a repository
When downloading from a repository, we have no way to ensure the
reproducibility of the generated archives, so we can't check the hashes.
Do not specifiy a hash file in those cases.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt index 1b34b41518..01a1928e28 100644 --- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt +++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt @@ -471,4 +471,10 @@ environment variable +BR2_ENFORCE_CHECK_HASH+ to a non-empty value, and there is no hash for a downloaded file, Buildroot considers this an error, deletes the downloaded file, and aborts. +Sources that are downloaded from a version control system (git, subversion, +etc...) can not have a hash, because the version control system and tar +may not create exactly the same file (dates, files ordering...), so the +hash could be wrong even for a valid download. Therefore, the hash check +is entirely skipped for such sources. + If the +.hash+ file is missing, then no check is done at all. |
