On Friday 18 April 2008 10:36, Ralf Habacker wrote: > Bernhard Reiter schrieb:
> > here are to dirty patches that might come in handy, if > > a) the network connection to some server is down, but you have the file > > as you said below the problem is when incomplete files were downloaded > in a previous session. Because wget checks the file size there is > currently prevention in this case. Applying this patch would skip this > wget check, so I would say that this patch should not be applied. Yes, this is why we did not apply it. ;) Still good to have the patch for some situations. > > b) round-robin dns from sourceforge gives you bad servers occasionally > > This patch I would say is required and it helps in some case from topic > a) too. Feel free to commit. Done. > > A real solution for b) would be to implement general fetchting retries. > > patches welcome > > > For a) we would need to implement a verficiation step > > that would check a sha1sum or an OpenPGP signature on disk first before > > trying to use the network. > > on the server containing kde windows distributions there are currently > md5sums available - although currently for all files of a specific > release in one file so this area probably need to be extended. Any > proposals ? Best would be detached signatures of course (for the one that publishes). It would help if just an md5sum is calculated and put in the emerge/portage when the portage while is adapted. I take it that in most cases there is a specific file referenced so that person updating a portage spec should just insert their own checksum at least. Bernhard -- Managing Director - Owner: www.intevation.net (Free Software Company) Germany Coordinator: fsfeurope.org. Coordinator: www.Kolab-Konsortium.com. Intevation GmbH, Osnabrück, DE; Amtsgericht Osnabrück, HRB 18998 Geschäftsführer Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner
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