Development and pending features

Gustavo Niemeyer gustavo at niemeyer.net
Tue Aug 12 06:20:33 PDT 2008


> Yes, there is a "CHECKSUM.md5" file which is slightly smaller and
> has a signature so their loading order should probably be flipped.
>
> But it seems that the default slapt-get fetching of them relies
> on the timestamp, and that it isn't working with Smart's fetch ?

In this case it should be used as a digest file, and the proper digest
checks should be put in place.  Have a look at the apt-rpm, apt-deb,
and rpm-md channels to see some examples of how this is done,
and feel free to ask me online about it.

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Gustavo Niemeyer
http://niemeyer.net



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