Add setting to disable patchlevel check.

svn path=/gentoo-vdr-scripts/trunk/; revision=622

3 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d8a424f..5cb8527 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 # ChangeLog for gentoo-vdr-scripts
 # $Id$
 
+  04 Jul 2008; Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org> etc/conf.d/vdr,
+  usr/share/vdr/inc/plugin-functions.sh:
+  Add setting to disable patchlevel check.
+
   03 Jul 2008; Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org>
   usr/share/vdr/rcscript/pre-start-10-chuid.sh, etc/conf.d/vdr:
   Add config-setting to disable usage of the vdr -u option.
diff --git a/etc/conf.d/vdr b/etc/conf.d/vdr
index c0fbcab..c4e43c6 100644
--- a/etc/conf.d/vdr
+++ b/etc/conf.d/vdr
@@ -184,6 +184,12 @@ LOG="3"
 #   default: yes
 #DEVICE_CHECK="no"
 
+# check the plugin for patchlevel compatibility with current vdr version
+# it will refuse to load a not compatible plugin
+#   allowed values: yes no
+#   default: yes
+PLUGIN_CHECK_PATCHLEVEL="yes"
+
 # hostname to access vdr with svdrp
 # (this normaly should not be changed)
 #   allowed values: hostname or ip-address
diff --git a/usr/share/vdr/inc/plugin-functions.sh b/usr/share/vdr/inc/plugin-functions.sh
index 1786cfa..1ebfa20 100644
--- a/usr/share/vdr/inc/plugin-functions.sh
+++ b/usr/share/vdr/inc/plugin-functions.sh
@@ -84,7 +84,9 @@ prepare_plugin_checks() {
 	vdr_checksum_dir="${plugin_dir%/plugins}/checksums"
 	vdr_checksum="${PL_TMP}"/header-md5-vdr
 	PLUGIN_CHECK_MD5=no
-	if vdr-get-header-checksum > "${vdr_checksum}"; then
+	if [ "${PLUGIN_CHECK_PATCHLEVEL:-yes}" = "yes" ] && \
+		vdr-get-header-checksum > "${vdr_checksum}"
+	then
 		PLUGIN_CHECK_MD5=yes
 	fi
 }