Bug#514388: dput loads the while file into RAM when generating checksum

2009-02-24 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
# Bcc: control tags 514388 + pending thanks Hi Ansgar, On 09/02/07 00:25 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt said ... dput loads the whole file into RAM when generating the checksum. This causes problems with large files (e.g. my local package for Mathematica). The attached patch makes dput read the

Bug#514388: dput loads the while file into RAM when generating checksum

2009-02-06 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: dput Version: 0.9.2.37 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi, dput loads the whole file into RAM when generating the checksum. This causes problems with large files (e.g. my local package for Mathematica). The attached patch makes dput read the file in smaller chunks (currently 64k) instead.