Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:28:45 GMT From: Hannes Hauswedell <freebsd@soulrebel.in-berlin.de> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/131440: [feature-request] add INDEX.bz2 and checksums to PACKAGESITES Message-ID: <200902060028.n160SjPB028766@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200902060030.n160U6FH018600@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 131440 >Category: ports >Synopsis: [feature-request] add INDEX.bz2 and checksums to PACKAGESITES >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Feb 06 00:30:06 UTC 2009 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Hannes Hauswedell >Release: irrelevant >Organization: >Environment: irrelevant >Description: By adding a bzipped version of the INDEX-file to the PACKAGESITEs, you could reduce traffic for clients fetching the INDEX and of course also for the server distributing it by > 90%! Having INDEX.bz2.md5 and/or INDEX.bz2.sha256 would also make it much easier to figure out if the INDEX needs to be fetched or not. I am not sure how the build-process works, but it shouldn't be very difficult to implement... Thanks for your help! >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: bzip2 INDEX md5 INDEX.bz2 > INDEX.bz2.md5 sha256 INDEX.bz2 > INDEX.bz2.sha256 :D >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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