Yeah, the SHA256.sig should be enough and just veify that everything is
correct.  If not, fetch the incorrect sets again.  I just wanted to give
a brief explaination on how I noticed this inconsistency.  But yeah,
thanks for pointing me to a better solution.


On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 05:12:32AM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote:
> Raf Czlonka wrote:
> > This is unrelated to your diff but what I do instead is to check
> > the BUILDINFO file - it's tiny and all the information you need,
> > is already there.
> 
> While we're on the subject, I'll point out that sometimes only the base sets
> change, but not the x sets. If you download SHA256 you can download only files
> that differ. (This also may work better if you switch mirrors or the
> timestamps drift for other reasons.) It's just a few lines of shell, though I
> don't have them handy atm.
> 
> (And for bonus points, you can use SHA256.sig and verify it's correct, then
> verify that BUILDINFO hasn't been tampered with, etc...)
> 
> ftp/http should still do the right thing, of course.

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