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

On Jul 15, Andrew ruskie Levstik [ruskie AT mages.ath.cx] wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Great idea I like it. That would cut down on a lot of useless downloads.
> Though there should be a --force flag added to scribe so that it would
> dl in any case...

Theoretically the md5 from the last download would be cached somewhere (so
it could compare)... a command/switch/whatever to remove the cached md5
would accomplish this.

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