On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 09:29, Jeff Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 6, 2011, at 5:24 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote: >> >> It would be more useful to add the download size, >> than to use two separate 160-bit checksum lines ? > > In reality the digest is more of an integrity than a security check (imho) > for downloaders, and even CRC would be gud enuf for integrity (but not > security) > checks.
I think it'd be useful to include the download size, not as a security or integrity feature, but as information for the user. This would require additional changes to base, but the user could be informed of the total size of data to be requested for all ports before things begin. -- arno s hautala /-| [email protected] pgp b2c9d448 _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
