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Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Currently the files that accompany our release files (ISO images, |
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> stages) are named in the following scheme: |
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> |
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> *.asc for GPG signatures |
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> *.md5 for MD5 sums |
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> |
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> while the files that accompany our portage snapshots are named: |
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> |
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> *.gpgsig for GPG signatures |
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> *.md5sum for MD5 sums |
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> |
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> I suggest we unify the naming scheme to the one currently in use by our |
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> release files to avoid unnecessary confusion amongst our end-users - |
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> unless of course there is a good reason for having different naming |
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> schemes for release files and portage snapshots? |
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Not against unification, but using the snapshot format would probably be |
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the easier way, as emerge-webrsync (and maybe other tools) need at |
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least the md5sum files for verification. And while changing that is |
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trivial, deploying that change can take a long time. |
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Marius |
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