On 2 Aug 2010, at 10:42, Carlo de Falco wrote: > I am re-opening this very old thread as I just came across a > possible solution/workaround to the "trailing garbage" issue. > I just noticed that if .tar.gz files are run through uuencode befor > uploading, the forum does not modify them so that: > > md5sum statistics-1.0.10.tar.gz > 588fc3e1d86e82af1eab6d8fc6e7840e statistics-1.0.10.tar.gz > uuencode statistics-1.0.10.tar.gz < statistics-1.0.10.tar.gz > > statistics-1.0.10.tar.gz.uue > > ## upload statistics-1.0.10.tar.gz.uue to the forum > ## downloadload statistics-1.0.10.tar.gz.uue from the forum > > uudecode statistics-1.0.10.tar.gz.uue > md5sum statistics-1.0.10.tar.gz > 588fc3e1d86e82af1eab6d8fc6e7840e statistics-1.0.10.tar.gz > > If noone objects I'd like to change the package release procedure on > SF to add the uuencode and md5sum steps as this would: > > 1) save me the effort of unpacking the tarballs posted to the forum > and re-packing them before uploading > which is the current workaround I am using to avoid the "trailing > garbage issue" > > 2) allow me to check the integrity of the files uploaded to/ > downloade from the forum by comparing the checksums > > I would particularly appreciate comments from windows users as > uuencode/md5sum are utilities available on any standard unix system > but I know nothing about windows. > > c. > > P.S. If this is OK we might even consider, in a future Octave > release, adding the ability for pkg.m to install .tar.gz.uue files > directly
"i7tiol" (which I believe to be Olaf Till) just released a new version of the "parallel" package using md5 checksum and uuenconding, as everything went fine and was very efficient for me to handle, I went on and updated the docs on <http://octave.sourceforge.net/ developers.html> to make this the recommended procedure. c. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
