[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] scripts/download.pl: fail loudly if provided hash is unsupported

[Stijn Tintel]

On 25-09-17 18:43, Stijn Tintel wrote:
> On 25-09-17 00:20, Baptiste Jonglez wrote:
>> On 24-09-17, Stijn Tintel wrote:
>>> My bad. When we update a package, we bump the version in the Makefile
>>> and remove the current hash, then run "make package/foo/dowload; make
>>> package/foo/check FIXUP=1". This downloads the tarbal for the new
>>> version, and FIXUP writes its hash to the Makefile. This is what's
>>> broken since the change.
>> Ok, I see the issue now.
>>
>> As mentioned in the commit message, we definitely should add an explicit
>> option to download.pl to skip hash verification, and then implement
>> something like this:
>>
>>     $ make package/foo/download SKIPHASH=1
>>
>> What do you think?
> We were thinking in that direction on #lede-dev, not sure why we
> couldn't agree. Let's wait a bit if anybody else chimes in?
Maybe just send an RFC patch with the suggested change, as nobodoy seems
to be responding.

Thanks,
Stijn