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Re: Why do local patches need checksums in distinfo files?



On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 10:47:43PM +0000, maya%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
> Last time this came up someone mentioned this makes it viable to update
> a pkgsrc install via unpacking a new pkgsrc tarball on top.
> This won't remove old patch files, but they won't be applied anyway.
> 
> I don't expect anyone actually does this.

Upon further thought, it's not a viable setup: I think PLIST.YourOS is
automatically applied, and we don't get rid of it if it's no longer
needed.


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