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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Glep25, Distfile Patching Support
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 20:22:46
Message-Id: 200404112222.43337.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Glep25, Distfile Patching Support by Brian Harring
1 On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Brian Harring wrote:
2
3 > I pestered a few people to get some additional stats for bolstering the
4 > reason for using an alternate md5 db; it truly is painful to have to
5 > decompress then md5sum that data for users w/ lower end systems-
6 >
7 That is quite expectable, however what about only using the uncompressed
8 md5 either when the compressed md5 doesn't fit (and it is reassembled) or
9 as a filter between the untar and the uncompress step.
10
11 Paul
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14 Paul de Vrieze
15 Gentoo Developer
16 Mail: pauldv@g.o
17 Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Glep25, Distfile Patching Support Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>