I made some changes to prepare to implement this a while ago. Those changes
should be in the mailing list somewhere.

I got prepare checking md5s, but I didn't write anything that actually
generated them automatically.

Jim

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 05:55:29PM -0500, Michael Joyner wrote:
> The idea is to have m5 sums associated with each downloadable file, correct?
> 
> FreeBSD stores the md5 sums as part of their 'ports' structure so that 
> when a file is downloaded, the md5 sum can be verified to ensure correct 
> download. (including resumed downloads).
> 
> Jens Geile wrote:
> >>Take a page out of the FreeBSD ports structure handbook:
> >>
> >>In fact, the more I think about it, the more features are added to the 
> >>current unattended application setup, the more you will be approaching a 
> >>a binary downloading ports structure siminlar in concept to the FreeBSD 
> >>ports tree (which I like, doesn't require nasty modifications to core OS 
> >>system for using on a different platform), or say Gentoo's portage 
> >>structure (which I don't like, which does nasty things to the poor OS, 
> >>core OS things should _NOT_ be part of the ports tree, binary patches 
> >>for Windows yes, entire OS system, _NO_).
> >
> >Could it be that you totally misunderstood me? I don't get what this last 
> >part has to do with "my" idea. >.> I only wanted to check the md5 
> >checksums of the files downloaded with the prepare script to make sure 
> >that they didn't get corrupted in case they were resumed with "wget -c".
> >
> >-
> >jens
> 
> 
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