Re: pkg netlist

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 26-Feb-2007, David Bateman wrote:
>
> | What is the consensus on whether this code should be included in the pkg
> | command? It probably makes no sense to do it at the moment as the
> | octave-forge website is in place. So I'd propose that this should be
> | done after the octave-forge website goes live so that we don't have to
> | remodify the code later..
>
> By "this code" do you mean something that finds packages on the net
> and downloads them when using "pkg install"?  I thought we discussed
> that at one point and there were some reservations about doing that
> unless we had some reasonable way to check the integrity of the
> packages.
>
> jwe
>
>   
In fact I'd like to introduce the RSA MD5 code into octave itself as it
is needed for the native language help functions. Therefore what I would
suggest is adding an Fmd5sum function, having octave-forge publish a
file with the package name, version number and MD5 sums and use this for
integrity checking. I'd like to have something like this file in any
case to check if packages have been modified, so that only modified
packages need to be modified and uploaded...

If it is alright with you, I'll propose a patch to add an Fmd5sum function..

Cheers
David


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