Re: Patching rust using packages in pkgsrc (.cargo-checksum.json)

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2023 at 09:32:13AM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> I have a small patch to firefox91 and firefox110 (don't ask on the latter)
> to fix their included copy of mp4parse to work with newer rust. I found I
> needed to patch their .cargo-checksum.json in order to avoid rust erroring
> out in the build.
> 
> Is this the usual way in pkgsrc, or is there an easy way to tell rust 'just
> go ahead and skip directory checksums? I ask as the one line patch is 68K
> long due to the very long line lengths :)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> David

I'm pretty sure this came up before and the answer was that
you can just use SUBST to set the checksum to empty (or calculate
it, I guess). An empty checksum skips the calculation.