Am Montag, 10.03.03 um 22:59 Uhr schrieb Alexander Strange:



On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 07:31 AM, Max Horn wrote:
What do you mean exactly when you talk about "features for the mirror" ? A mirror is only a dumb file server, so I don't understand what you mean here...

I meant "things that I could use to do neat stuff with an autoupdating mirror".

So, you don't mean "feature for the mirror" but rather "things I could do on the server with the mirror files" ? Why don't you write that in the first place then :-)


* Ability to refetch packages with invalid MD5 sums.
* A command to return the email address of a package's maintainer.

Uhh especially here. Think spam abuse. Plus you must get the permission of all maintainers if you want to publish their email address somehow. I have no clue what you actually meant here, though, hence before I say anything more i'll wait for you to clarify it.

Hmm, true. I could set it to mail notifications of bad URLs to fink-devel instead of to individual maintainers.

Ah so you meant you want to notify maintainers when you detect invalid MD5s for the source files of a package. Such a thing would be OK I guess. But still the sentence "A command to return the email address of a package's maintainer." rings some alarm bells for me, as it's very vague. As long as it only means "send emails to maintainers about bad MD5" it's fine by me.



Max




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