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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

Theres a md5sum checking menu in sorcery -> option -> integrity checking
-> download. It'll complain on certain conditions depending on what you
set it to.

Note that this is different that "system integrity" which applies to
cast/cleanse --fix.

-Andrew

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 09:26:59AM -0500, sergey AT optimaltec.com wrote:
> OK, I wasn't clear: the sorcery doesn't complain *on cast*. I don't remember
> sorcery having a setting that completely ignores checksum and doesn't even
> produce a warning if it's wrong, I think we never do such a thing. So, I
> couldn't have disabled checksum warning entirely, right? I haven't see 
> sorcery
> code for a while, so I'd appreciate a pointer on where to look for checksum
> calculation and comparison code.
> Thanks!
> 
> Sergey.
> 
> Quoting Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>:
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 07:55:59AM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> > > Hi All, especially sorcery team :-),
> > >
> > > During recompile of GNOME, I hit the following snag. It's either my
> > > connection or sorcery or wget, but files downloaded by summon are
> > > truncated. BZip2 says they're broken. Sometimes I delete them,
> > > re-summon, they're truncated again. I tried changing mirrors (this
> > > happens with the main GNOME site) but most our mirror settings in the
> > > U.S. are not working (I'll fix it myself, no problem). But that's not
> > > the problem.
> > >
> > > The worst thing is, sorcery never complains about checksums being wrong.
> > > I checked, the MD5 are different. That's pretty much it. I can get a
> > > debug output of cast if necessary.
> > > Thanks!
> >
> > Theres really not been much changed in sorcery with the downloading
> > code recently so it seems unlikely that sorceery would all of sudden
> > be breaking downloads..maybe wget is timing out or something and we're
> > misinterpritting the results/exit status? Sorry we can't reproduce and/or
> > help much with this.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Andrew
> >
> >
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