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  • From: Nick Jennings <nkj AT namodn.com>
  • To: "Julian v. Bock" <julian AT openit.de>
  • Cc: Jonathan Evraire <evraire AT tuwg.com>, Ryan Abrams <rabrams AT sourcemage.org>, eric AT schabell.com, sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?
  • Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 12:10:19 -0700

Ok, so it;s agreed then, that when sorcery falls back to the SM_MIRROR_URL,
it will not use fuzzy downloading?


On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:13:25AM +0200, Julian v. Bock wrote:
> Hi
>
> >>>>> "JE" == Jonathan Evraire <evraire AT tuwg.com> writes:
>
> JE> It seems to be a perfect opportunity to limit such mistakes. The
> JE> mirroring system can attempt to download the exact file specified
> JE> by the maintainer, and if it fails it can send an email saying so
> JE> to the maitainer. To be on the safe side, it could attempt a
> JE> fuzzy download afterwards and inform the maintainer of the final
> JE> results to assist them in correcting the mistake.
>
> Sounds ok.
>
> JE> (I always thought fuzzy downloads were in
> JE> place in case the file changed slightly AFTER the spells have been
> JE> successfully tested
>
> There are other applications for fuzzy downloading. The most important
> is (IMHO) that you can recompress your tarballs with bzip2 and put
> them on a cd (where space is really important) or a file server for
> your network.
>
> BTW that is why I am trying to convince people all the time to use
> checksums on the .tar.
>
> Julian
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