From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Mar 15 9:17:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 149CC37B718 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:17:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=dbf0c3624768afaf5defd85ac8ee3e89) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14dbNJ-0000P3-00; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 10:17:21 -0700 Message-ID: <3AB0F921.3E8FC55C@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 10:17:21 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Dillon Cc: Garance A Drosihn , David O'Brien , Brooks Davis , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a SITE MD5 command to ftpd References: <20010314084651.A23104@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <200103142342.QAA09233@usr08.primenet.com> <20010314161555.A4984@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20010314185026.C7683@dragon.nuxi.com> <200103150256.f2F2u1b37896@earth.backplane.com> <200103150606.f2F66Vj38988@earth.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Dillon wrote: > > :If you're going to download it anyway, then there is zero point > :to doing the MD5. The way I'm reading this option, the ONLY > :reason to do an MD5 is to try and *-AVOID-* doing a download. > :That is all I want it for, at least. > > I'm just trying to think of the situations where a user would do > this on a regular basis, and I simply can't imagine that Fetching ports distfiles or packages. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message