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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 11:26:26PM -0700, Andrew wrote:
> As far as the checking of files right after download a lot of people
> probably wouldn't like to have to endure a "useless" unpack right after
> a download. On the other hand it sucks to have broken files floating.

That's what gaze checkmd5s is for.

> 
> We could have an option to check files after downloading, it could even
> be a numerical threshold for the maximum size of a file to verify (just
> an idea). If someone wants they can file a sorcery feature request and
> I'll add it to the 1.12 or maybe 1.13 stack.

If unpack does its job, there's no point in duplicating effort.

We need to be able to reproduce though.

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