From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Sep 22 12:57:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA16298 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 12:57:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ady.warpnet.ro (ady.warpnet.ro [193.230.201.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15926; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 12:55:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ady@warpnet.ro) Received: from localhost (ady@localhost) by ady.warpnet.ro (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA12707; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 22:53:36 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ady@warpnet.ro) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 22:53:36 +0300 (EEST) From: Adrian Penisoara To: Satoshi Asami cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, se@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetch + size In-Reply-To: <199809221627.JAA08248@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Satoshi Asami wrote: > Hi, > > I got the following (slightly changed) from Stefan Esser (se). It > adds support for file size checking (-S) option to fetch. > > I'm torn whether it should go in before the release, for two reasons: > > (1) The -S flag of "fetch" just went into -current, if it doesn't work > as well as it's supposed to this might cause a great instability > in ports This won't help too many people as for the moment I assume that the vast majority of FreeBSD production machines run 2.2-stable... And if it might be buggy in bleeding edge -current... > > (2) The patch adds a SIZE line to files/md5. That is quite > displeasing aesthetically (there's a reason why the file was > called "md5" in the first place...) I don't see how a file with different size would have the same MD5 checksum !... Why should we need a SIZE line on top of the MD5 checksum ? > > What do people think? I'm leaning towards leaving this out for 3.0R, > for reasons stated above. (We'll be dealing with a whole bunch of > diffs to files/md5 if this goes in, so it's going to be a royal pain > to change it later....) IMHO I think that this SIZE addition would be an uneccesary complication! > > Satoshi > ------- [Patch deleted] Ady (@freebsd.ady.ro) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message