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

On Jul 15, Andrew [afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com] wrote:
> 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?

It would be useful for rsync as well.  rsync takes a long time to run to
even decide it has nothing to update.  The md5 comparison would happen
within seconds and eliminate the need for rsync to even get called a lot of
the time.

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