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  • From: Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] truncated downloads
  • Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:34:48 -0700

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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