The checksum doesn't go in an "info.rkt" file, but in a "download.tar.gz.CHECKSUM" file.
More info is here: https://docs.racket-lang.org/pkg/Package_Concepts.html#%28part._concept~3asource%29 Hope that helps, Matthew At Thu, 1 Jul 2021 13:14:36 -0700 (PDT), "[email protected]" wrote: > I'm not sure if what I'm seeing is a bug or whether I'm using the package > system incorrectly, but here goes: > > I just submitted a package to the package server whose source is a simple > URL. It's not a Git repo accessible via HTTPS; it's a Fossil repo, with a > server running that serves up a plain old tar-and-gzip'd directory. The > error message from the build process: > > pkg: mismatched checksum on package package source: > https://example.com/cool-package/tarball/trunk/download.tar.gz expected: "" > got: "a5d851da2832c0b43f7530794987da0a080ebe6d" > > The naive way to read this error message is: OK, I need to specify a > checksum. But there's no checksum field in the form on the package server. > You can specify a URL and nothing else. After some digging, I found that > checksums > can be specified in an info.rkt file, but to my mind that shouldn't be > necessary. My thinking is: if I just give a simple URL, the package server > should just download the thing, make some reasonable guess about the > content (in this case, it can be inferred from the media type in the > server's response, but barring that, calling the `file` utility will reveal > it's a gzip'd tar file, etc.), and we're off to the races. Am I thinking > about things incorrectly? Are my expectations too high? What can I do? > (Please don't tell me to just use Git!) > > Jesse -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/20210701143542.1a2%40sirmail.smtps.cs.utah.edu.
