[LLVMdev] Obsolete PTX is NOT completely removed in 3.2 release

[Pawel Wodnicki]

On 1/11/2013 2:40 PM, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 09:33:17PM +0100, Benjamin Kramer wrote:
>> 
>> On 11.01.2013, at 21:31, Justin Holewinski 
>> <justin.holewinski at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Benjamin Kramer 
>>> <benny.kra at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 11.01.2013, at 07:36, ????????? (Wei-Ren Chen) 
>>> <chenwj at iis.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Pawel,
>>>> 
>>>> PTX already be replaced with NVPTX. However, PTX subdirectory
>>>> still sit in lib/Target in 3.2 release. Do you think update
>>>> the release tarball is a good idea? Also could you remove it
>>>> from the trunk?
>>> 
>>> Please do not, under no circumstances, change the 3.2 release 
>>> tarballs at this point. They are mirrored around the world now 
>>> with cryptographic hashes and signatures. Changing them will 
>>> break things for many people, especially for an extremely
>>> minor thing like an empty directory.
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure if Pawel's tarball change should be reverted now 
>>> as it already caused uproar, so changing it back might only 
>>> make matters worse.
>>> 
>>> The tarballs were changed?
>> 
>> r172208
> 
> I finally updated the FreeBSD ports yesterday and today a user 
> complained about distfile changes.  IMO, this revision should be 
> reverted or all the other BSDs will have to chase checksums as 
> well.
> 
> If you really want to remove the directory, ship a 3.2.1 tarball 
> rather than screwing all the downstream consumers who's 
> infrastructure exists to detect trojan'd tarballs.

Tarball is signed, it is not trjoan.
Your infrastructure should be able to deal with it?

> 
> -- Brooks
> 

Paweł