Date: 22 Mar 2000 11:43:22 -0800 From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>, Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Feature request: Store dist file size somewhere Message-ID: <vqc4s9yu6xx.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Nik Clayton's message of "Wed, 22 Mar 2000 08:42:26 %2B0000" References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003211840440.84343-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <vqcln3bu2hw.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <20000322084226.A70194@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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* From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> * A nice idea, but not quite what I'm thinking of. I'm really thinking of * someone sat at the wrong end of an expensive phone connection who's thinking * "Should I do 'make install' now, and hope it's not going to suck down * multi-megabytes of data, or should I postpone it and/or find some other * way of getting the files?" * * If they've got to dial up to answer this question then it's not as useful. Nono, the size *is* going to be stored in files/md5 (that's what we compare against!). So if you want to know it beforehand, you can just "cat files/md5". :) Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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