Re: Bug#78493: apt-get source doesn't resume after it's finished
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 08:34:43PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
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> On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
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> > > If you don't get that result there are only 3 possiblities
> > > 1) Defective http server, does not support resume
> >
> > Why should it hit the server when it already downloaded everything? I think
> > this is the root of the bug; it shouldn't reget even if the server doesn't
> > support resume, since it already got everything (maybe with the exception of
> > the .dsc, which is needed to check if it's really finished).
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> Can't tell if it has or hasn't, the last download might have aborted.
>
Doesn't the .dsc have the md5 of the other files? md5sum is cheaper than
network access.
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Cesar Eduardo Barros
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cesarb@dcc.ufrj.br
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