Re: Bug#366780: ITP: summain -- compute and verify file checksums

2006-05-16 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:41:54AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: Apart from supporting more file formats, summain differs from the traditional md5sum and sha1sum utilities by providing progress reporting, and via convenience features such as automatic recursion into directories, and looking

Re: Bug#366780: ITP: summain -- compute and verify file checksums

2006-05-15 Thread Uwe Hermann
Hi, On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:41:54AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: to, 2006-05-11 kello 07:13 -0700, Ben Pfaff kirjoitti: It's not clear to me, from the description, what the program does that the md5sum and sha1sum utilities do not. How does it compare to md5deep (which also comes with

Re: Bug#366780: ITP: summain -- compute and verify file checksums

2006-05-11 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hello Lars, On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 03:35 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: A checksum is a number that identifies the contents of a file: if the contents change, so does the checksum. If you create a checksum before you burn a CD, when you know the files are correct, you can easily check the CD

Re: Bug#366780: ITP: summain -- compute and verify file checksums

2006-05-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A checksum is a number that identifies the contents of a file: if the contents change, so does the checksum. If you create a checksum before you burn a CD, when you know the files are correct, you can easily check the CD at any time: just compute

Re: Bug#366780: ITP: summain -- compute and verify file checksums

2006-05-11 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2006-05-11 kello 07:13 -0700, Ben Pfaff kirjoitti: It's not clear to me, from the description, what the program does that the md5sum and sha1sum utilities do not. It handles .dsc, .changes, and Sources files. But I also forgot to mention the main reason I wrote it: it gives progress

Bug#366780: ITP: summain -- compute and verify file checksums

2006-05-10 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: summain Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://liw.iki.fi/liw/summain/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description