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Date:      Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:02:15 -0500
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com>
To:        Parv <parv@pair.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, Erwin Lansing <erwin@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bin/34628: [pkg_install] [patch] pkg-routines ignore the recorded md5 checksums
Message-ID:  <200611150802.16112@aldan>
In-Reply-To: <20061115053943.GA34474@holestein.holy.cow>
References:  <200611142154.kAELsKN4007777@freefall.freebsd.org> <200611141703.38311.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <20061115053943.GA34474@holestein.holy.cow>

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On Wednesday 15 November 2006 00:39, Parv wrote:
= > Anyway, what is the overhead exactly?
= 
= Is that a trick question? Overhead would be in the time & other
= computer resources (file handles, CPU time, etc.) it will take to
= calculate the MD5 check sum for all the files of a installed port.

No, the checksums are only computed for the files given to the -W option -- an 
infrequent operation.

= Imagine that when installing more than one or two ports, or a large
= one.

I don't need to "imagine" it -- it already happens :-) Every time you install 
a port, every file is checksummed and the sum is recorded.

My patch simply makes use of that information to make the `-W' option more 
useful.

Have I dispelled the "overhead" argument?

	-mi



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