[LEDE-DEV] Invalid hash for usbip package

[Nuno Gonçalves]

That I can do. Thanks for pointing the direction.

Thanks,
Nuno

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Felix Fietkau <nbd at nbd.name> wrote:
> On 2017-11-30 10:21, Nuno Gonçalves wrote:
>> I need some help on this.
>>
>> This file changes frequently, and there is no versioned URL to keep it
>> stable, so just updating the hash is not a permanent fix.
>>
>> So first I don't understand how this problem didn't come up before. I
>> am also (unfortunately) not current usbip, while I'm listed as the
>> maintainer.
>>
>> Maybe this usb.ids file is now part of Linux?
>>
>> Any inputs?
> Hi Nuno,
>
> it seems that usbutils already contains a copy of usb.ids, but it pulls
> it from the gentoo hwids repository. While not always fully up to date,
> it is probably much better to use that instead of trying to download
> from the moving target that the usbip makefile is using right now.
> My suggestion would be to change the usbutils Makefile to package
> usb.ids separately and make usbip depend on that new package (and add an
> appropriate symlink if necessary).
>
> - Felix