At 7:07 AM -0400 5/11/02, David R. Morrison wrote:
>  > Of course i suppose we'd have to update every package
>
>Not necessarily.  If the Source-MD5 field is present, fink should check
>against it; if not, fink would let the download through.  It then would
>be up to the maintainers of packages to add this if they wanted.


If we wanted to add parallel fetching using something like "puf", we 
would want to have MD5 for every package so we could make sure every 
download completes successfully.

-Ben
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