Package Verification

["brian (b.c.) white" <bcwhite@bnr.ca>]

I'd like to suggest another field to be automatically added to the
"Packages" files that exist at the top of each hierarchy in the
distribution.  I'd like to see a "Checksum:" field that can be used to
verify the correct download of these packages.  I think including both
an 'md5sum' and a (filesize) would be best as the file size would
allow a reasonable check on non-Debian systems and the 'md5sum' would
allow absolute verification before installation.

Example:
checksum: d14d384e0895986bc9f2b09f0a8b84fc (295393)

The reason for this is so programs like 'dftp' can verify that they
retrieved the packages correctly before attempting to install them.

Comments, anyone?

                                        Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@bnr.ca )

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