From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Mar 14 8:21:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 97B1937B719 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:21:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 8696 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Mar 2001 16:21:06 -0000 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:21:06 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: Dan Nelson Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a SITE MD5 command to ftpd Message-ID: <20010314182106.A422@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Dan Nelson , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010313211544.B17733@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <200103140459.VAA03061@usr05.primenet.com> <20010314084651.A23104@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20010314012132.A91957@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010314112651.C23104@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20010314101440.A5965@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010314101440.A5965@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@emsphone.com on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:14:40AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:14:40AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Mar 14), Peter Pentchev said: > > Yes, this is only intended for fenner-like scripts, with the added > > benefit that a server-side MD5 checksum calculation would give > > individual port maintainers the ability to easily check their own > > ports often. > > Why not just use SIZE and MDTM, then? It serves the same purpose > (simply checking to see if the file has changed), and is already > implemented in most ftpds. Hmm.. because we do not record this in our port metadata? Actually, after a discussion with David O'Brien on IRC today, I'm having second thoughts about this feature. Maybe in a day or two, after I've slept on it, I'll change my mind about it :) G'luck, Peter -- This sentence claims to be an Epimenides paradox, but it is lying. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message