Re: pkg/60796 (pkgsrc: distinfo.awk writes a corrupt distinfo when a tool produces no output)

[riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost]

Synopsis: pkgsrc: distinfo.awk writes a corrupt distinfo when a tool produces no output

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost
State-Changed-When: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:57:52 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
> 	  DIGEST=true ...:  8 lines, "SHA1 (" 15 times, 4 lines damaged,
> 	                    the SHA512 lines gone, exit 1
> 	  WC=true ...:      "Size (a.tar.gz) = $NetBSD$ bytes" twice, exit 1
> 
> 	In a package directory the patch case is
> 
> 	  make TOOLS_DIGEST=true makepatchsum

Yes, if you set the variables for internal tools to point at programs
that...are not those tools, and do not behave like those tools, the
results will not be sensible.  I bet your packages will get built wrong
if you also set CC=true, RM=true, MV=true, and LN=true!

Solution: don't set TOOLS_DIGEST=true.

Why did you file this bug?  Did you somehow come upon a scenario where
TOOLS_DIGEST gets set to true?  If so, this is what we call an `XY
problem': you stumbled upon a problem X (TOOLS_DIGEST got set to true),
you observed symptom Y (digest is silently built wrong), and you asked
for help with putting a band-aid on symptom Y instead of figuring out
why X is happening.

Or did you prompt an LLM to find bugs in pkgsrc and just copy & paste
its hallucinations for NetBSD and pkgsrc developers to waste their time
on?  If you did that, please don't.