Re: packages without .md5sums file?
Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Can you elaborate on the advantage of letting everyone generate their own
> checksums for the installed files? Seems to me a waste of cpu cycles.
We process all the data in a pipe anyway so calculating the checksum
takes no effort. Benefits are we don't need to store them on lots of mirrors
(space saving), it's more configurable (specify which checksums you want),
it's more flexible (easily add new checksums without changing the archive).
Wichert.
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