It would be nice to have files with checksums of binary packages 
available, esp. after bulk builds. Possible options to implement that 
would be either

a) at "make package" time, where $PKGDIR/../../$checksumfile could be 
updated. An old checksum of the same filename should be removed. Maybe 
this checksum processing should only if PKG_DEVELOPER or BATCH (== bulk 
build) is set. Or

b) after bulk builds, for all packages in one go. Disadvantage here is
that it would re-calculate checksums of pkgs that didn't change, which may 
waste some cycles (e.g. if you have your packages on a slow NFS server :).

Needed checksums are what is available for NetBSD releases too: BSDSUM, 
CKSUM, MD5, SYSVSUM.

Is anyone interested in working on this?


  - Hubert

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