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Date:      Thu, 15 Mar 2001 19:19:57 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        jabley@automagic.org (Joe Abley)
Cc:        adrian@FreeBSD.ORG (Adrian Chadd), freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, roam@orbitel.bg (Peter Pentchev)
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] add a SITE MD5 command to ftpd
Message-ID:  <200103151919.MAA18623@usr05.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010315092047.E8289@buddha.home.automagic.org> from "Joe Abley" at Mar 15, 2001 09:20:47 AM

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> *OR* you could distribute the problem the way it is naturally
> distributed, and build a mechanism whereby a downloaded distfile
> that fails its MD5 check on any recent build of FreeBSD causes
> a notification to be sent back to the mother ship.

I like this idea, but it is orthogonal.

However, it would be a useful thing to do first.

I suggest that this be done _now_, and that statistics be
collected on failures; people can subsequently use those
statistics to decide whether a SITE MD5 capability is really
justified, or if people are just for it because they have a
better memory for failure than for success.

I'd suggest instrumenting other information for statistical
collection only, such as installation counts for all ports.

This would also let us finally answer the "KDE vs. Gnome for
default desktop?" question, as well as letting us know if
some "xxx" utility should be part of the base installation
instead of a port.

It's worthwhile, so long as the information is statistical
only, and that rereporting for a single system reinstall is
somehow supressed to keep people from "stacking the deck"
in favor of having the Ada compiler installed by default (as
an extreme example).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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