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

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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