[TYPO3-core] Ever-changing PackageStates.php file

[Jost Baron]

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Hi Francois,

there already is an effort to resolve this:

http://forge.typo3.org/issues/56362

Regards,
Jost

On 06/20/2014 04:57 PM, François Suter wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have an issue with the new PackageStates.php file. It is very
> often rewritten. I'm not exactly sure about all the circumstances
> when this does happen, obviously when the cache is cleared, it
> seems also sometimes when you haven't visited the EM in a long and
> it kind of "updates" itself.
> 
> I'm bothered because each time the file is different, even of the 
> extensions haven't changed. I have the impression that - once the 
> dependencies have been resolved - the rest of the extensions are
> not sorted in any particular way, resulting in a random
> arrangement.
> 
> This is an issue for us as we run an integrity check script on our 
> servers. An unexpected change of PackageStates.php in very
> undesirable. IMO it should change only when something has changed
> with extensions (updates, new extensions, etc.). In such a case I
> obviously expect an integrity change anyway. But if nothing has
> changed on the server and the package manager has just "refreshed"
> itself, the resulting PackageStates.php file should be unchanged.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Cheers
> 

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