pkg : option to exclude some files from checksum ?

Don Lewis truckman at FreeBSD.org
Mon Nov 2 23:19:30 UTC 2015


On  2 Nov, Lars Engels wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 12:35:10AM +0100, Xavier wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> I noticed that some ports are complaining in daily check that a checksum 
>> has changed.
>> 
>> Example : f-prot which checksums virus definitions, which obviously changes.
>> 
>> Is there some macro/option in Makefile to not checksum this file ?
>> 
>> I hope my point is clear enough...
>> 
>> TIA,
>> 
>> Xav
> 
> make -DNO_CHECKSUM should work

Does it make sense to include stale virus definitions in the package?
Why not just download the up to date definitions at runtime?



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