On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 03:48:40AM -0400, Anders Kaseorg wrote: > On 09/04/2011 02:36 AM, Ryan Niebur wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:17:25PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > >>And it's this part that I suggested to get rid of entirely, because > >>you're not qualified to know whether it should be "$p.md5sums or > >>"$p:$arch.md5sums". Ideally you should store those in a debsums specific > >>directory and use "$p:$arch" unconditionnaly. > > > >This still needs to happen at some point. > > The advantage of writing to the real dpkg path is that dpkg will > automatically remove the debsums-generated md5sums file when the > package is upgraded, so that debsums knows to regenerate it. If > debsums wrote its md5sums file anywhere else, it would be hard to > prevent it from getting stale. >
True. Including the package version number in the filename could be a solution to this, though that wouldn't work for every situation (if people install a .deb with the same version but different files).
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