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["Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Jul 15, Seth Alan Woolley [seth AT positivism.org] wrote:
> If there are too many broken caches for reliability, we could implement 
> our own caching using a manifest file with a list of md5sums of the big 
> tarballs.  This would allow more frequent checks for tarball changes as 
> well, as they wouldn't have to download the whole tarball every time to 
> check for a new update.

Heh, I was just thinking about proposing this today, while trying to check
if some changes had made it to the test tarball yet w/the p4 stunnel
issues.  Having "{scribe,sorcery} update" check an md5 *before* starting
the full download would save a lot of time/bandwidth.

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