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  • From: Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Sorcery and the Broken Cache
  • Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:51:56 -0700

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 03:29:20PM -0500, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> 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.

so, why not rsync?

-Andrew

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