Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/3] glep-0074: Specify the format of size and checksum fields

[Michał Górny]

On Sat, 2022-09-24 at 18:09 -0500, John Helmert III wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 04:03:54PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o>
> > ---
> >  glep-0074.rst | 13 +++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/glep-0074.rst b/glep-0074.rst
> > index 54bf216..bfbe092 100644
> > --- a/glep-0074.rst
> > +++ b/glep-0074.rst
> > @@ -191,6 +191,19 @@ The encoding can be used for other characters as well. In particular,
> >  escaping non-printable characters might be desirable.
> >
> >
> > +Size and checksum fields
> > +------------------------
> > +
> > +The Manifest entries used to describe files list the file size and one
> > +or more checksums. The size is expressed as an unsigned decimal integer.
>
> "an unsigned decimal integer" representing the file's size in bytes
> (rather than bits, or nibbles, or $UNIT), right?
>

Very well.  I'm afraid this is going to break some existing
implementations that preferred to measure in inches but gotta live with
it.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny