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  • From: "Ryan Abrams" <rabrams AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: "Nick Jennings" <nkj AT namodn.com>, "Julian v. Bock" <julian AT openit.de>
  • Cc: "Jonathan Evraire" <evraire AT tuwg.com>, <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 14:07:33 -0500

Guess that works for me. I will have to code in something in the mirror
script that checks if the file is found or not and informs the author once a
week if it fails. I will also have to create a list of spells that are
exempt from that rule so that meta spells don't yell at authors weekly.

But hey.. we can do that. I guess.

I still prefer that we stick to one standard. Either everything uses fuzzy,
and we always work with it. Or everything doesnt. :-/

-Ryan

----- Original Message -----
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>
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?


> 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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