On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmo...@in-nomine.org> wrote: > Agreed. Within FreeBSD's ports the installed package registration gets a MD5 > hash per file recorded. Size is less interesting though, since essentially > this information is encapsulated within the hash. Remove one byte from the > file and your hash is already different. And the case of a collision for > this kind of registration is sufficiently small to need the size > information.
Size is nice because it's much cheaper to check. I don't know if mass uninstalls will be so common that this is actually something we have to worry about, though. Cheers, Dirkjan _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
