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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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Ladislav Hagara wrote:
>> ==== //sgl/grimoires/devel/devel/tcl/DETAILS#8 (xtext) ====
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>> - 
>> SOURCE_HASH=sha512:f09e860a5c6408f32b8ce297d88952b8e670780eb5121b7e81b9db7e48a8b43899ad14eb31ad52d635dac71d46e2cec5db4361b4b44f6dcd5ba0d93741451fa8
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>> + 
>> SOURCE_HASH=sha512:2d89b21af314c1416747886873ef00478088b2bfcba4404c099a8dfb39737b8b6d29942376e9a0f9cfec9ecd6a09d0822b55b6ec2587e042acdcdebbef4b0d3c
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>> ==== //sgl/grimoires/devel/devel/tcl/HISTORY#10 (text) ====
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>> +2006-05-19 Arwed v. Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
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>> + * DETAILS: fixed SOURCE_HASH, bug #11553
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> 
> Just small idea/problem I have thought several times.
> 
> Now different users have different sources.
> 
> If new sources fix some problem users using old sources still have that 
> problem.
> 
> Two users with the same version of spell can have applications with 
> different behaviour.
> 
> What about something like "summon -f" for all users with old sources?

The 'safest' fix would be to set FORCE_DOWNLOAD="on" for tarballs that
change without a new version, thus 'punishing' the stupid upstream
people who do so. However, this would also 'punish' our users who may
have metered/limited downloads.  :(

You could, perhaps, do some magic in DOWNLOAD where you do a
`verify_file` and if it fails, remove the 'old' tarball and start a
download, otherwise exit successfully.

- -sandalle

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us                  |  http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Shock Physics @ WSU
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