From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jan 31 16: 9:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7774437B416 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 16:09:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0167.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.167] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16WRGb-0006uM-00; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 16:09:22 -0800 Message-ID: <3C59DCAA.3121F616@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 16:09:14 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mats Lofkvist Cc: n@nectar.cc, sheldonh@starjuice.net, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Adding support for a global src tree serial number References: <79300.1012474898@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <20020131131714.GA87780@madman.nectar.cc> <3C5947DC.DB3AD4B2@mindspring.com> <20020131140226.12792.qmail@kairos.algonet.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mats Lofkvist wrote: > But, if you knew the exact order of changes, you could start > with a list of all files with versions at the start time and > then check the MD5 for all changes until the end time by > replacing the version of each changed file. This is only > number-of-files * number-of-changes. Perhaps we could use a distributed client, like "seti@home" in order to figure out what MD5 goes with what set of files? 8-) -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message