From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Mar 22 11:44:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3412837C1DB; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:44:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca6-109.ix.netcom.com [205.186.213.109]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAB04592; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:43:29 -0500 (EST) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.6.9) id LAA09108; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:43:27 -0800 (PST) To: Nik Clayton Cc: Kris Kennaway , Nik Clayton , ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Feature request: Store dist file size somewhere References: <20000322084226.A70194@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 22 Mar 2000 11:43:22 -0800 In-Reply-To: Nik Clayton's message of "Wed, 22 Mar 2000 08:42:26 +0000" Message-ID: Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: Nik Clayton * A nice idea, but not quite what I'm thinking of. I'm really thinking of * someone sat at the wrong end of an expensive phone connection who's thinking * "Should I do 'make install' now, and hope it's not going to suck down * multi-megabytes of data, or should I postpone it and/or find some other * way of getting the files?" * * If they've got to dial up to answer this question then it's not as useful. Nono, the size *is* going to be stored in files/md5 (that's what we compare against!). So if you want to know it beforehand, you can just "cat files/md5". :) Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message