mxcl/homebrew — Issue #9656: Make checksums optional?
Author: dstuebe
Created: 2012-01-17 22:55:24+00:00
State: open

Hey Homebrew

The checksum is important but very painful.

Software distributions transparently change the file behind their links all the time and usually don't provide a hard link with a constant checksum. Erlang is a great example, they update the docs regularly, so the brew install fails - after make is finished!

The checksum is an important safety check but there must be an override or force option to try and continue. It makes maintaining a work environment for a development team nearly impossible.

Any thoughts on a good interface? Maybe some files like the source can require an exact match while some like the docs don't? That would require changes in every recipe but it would be a goal for the future.

I am pretty sure the recipe maintainers are tired of updating their md5s though!

David