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Date:      15 Mar 2001 00:10:12 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] add a SITE MD5 command to ftpd
Message-ID:  <xzpvgpcx7zf.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Dan Nelson's message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:57:27 -0600"
References:  <20010314105918.A5204@roaming.cacheboy.net> <35525.984597779@critter> <20010314210758.A2405@roaming.cacheboy.net> <15023.53743.215996.538067@nomad.yogotech.com> <20010314130025.A3031@dragon.nuxi.com> <xzpelw0yqun.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010314161646.A1482@dan.emsphone.com> <15023.61042.768406.854325@nomad.yogotech.com> <20010314165727.A2240@dan.emsphone.com>

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Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> writes:
> Depends.  Are we planning on only using the MD5 feature in Bill
> Fenner's port-checking scripts, or are we going to put it in
> bsd.port.mk?  Do we want a thousand people doing "SITE MD5" commands
> every time a new copy of Netscape/Apache/kde/whatever comes out?

Hmm, I've been thinking for a long time of writing a VFS layer that
reports the MD5 of a file as an extended attribute or something, and
automatically recomputes it if the file is written to. Could be real
useful for cvsup, too.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure VFS layering works well enough for this to
work.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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