> Von: Bernhard Reiter > 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. > The packager can be modified to create a md5sum for every package (dbus-mingw-1.1.2-1234567.md5sum) or every file. Just don't know if this helps us. Putting something in the emerge tree isn't a good solution as we can't use it for our installer then.
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