The following reply was made to PR pkg/37149; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Arnaud Lacombe" <lacombar@gmail.com>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/37149 (no distinfo are generated if NO_CHECKSUM="yes")
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:37:00 +0200

 I re-send my reply as I sent it privatly:
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 The bug is that checksum are mandatory for patches even if NO_CHECKSUM
 is defined, and there is *no* way to disable this as this check is
 hardcoded in mk/patch/patch.mk. This is a caveat and the documentation
 is misleading.
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  - Arnaud
 
 On 10/19/07, rillig@netbsd.org <rillig@netbsd.org> wrote:
 > Synopsis: no distinfo are generated if NO_CHECKSUM="yes"
 >
 > State-Changed-From-To: closed->open
 > State-Changed-By: rillig@netbsd.org
 > State-Changed-When: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:40:34 +0000
 > State-Changed-Why:
 >
 > Reopening, you are right. Sorry for closing the PR too early.
 >