On Apr 15, 2009, at 1:50 AM, Stefan Bodewig wrote:

On 2009-04-15, Craig L Russell <[email protected]> wrote:

Does rat have the ability to list the contents of a url directory,
download and check the artifacts' signatures and md5 sums, then unzip/
untar the artifacts and do its usual license checking on the results?

No, it doesn't.

You can skip the unzip/untar step since RAT can work on compressed
archives (see the Ant task for examples) but it will probably run
faster if you unpack the archive first.

I'm sure it will be faster than what I'm currently doing, which is to go to the web page and manually download, check sums, check signatures, unzip/untar the artifact and run RAT. How slow can RAT be compared to that?

Craig


Stefan

Craig L Russell
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