Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 07:56:53 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net> To: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Cc: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: perhaps i am just stupid. Message-ID: <32088485.5EF2@ime.net> References: <199608070003.AAA06785@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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James Raynard wrote: > > [re checksumming dist files before installation] > > > > I can see problems fitting this into the download-and-extract-on-the-fly > > > scheme of things. For instance, if you're downloading over a modem, > > > and bin.aa is corrupted, would you really want to have to wait until > > > everything up to bin.cx has come down before finding it out? > > > (Especially if it's some sort of systematic error and every file > > > you've spent the last two hours downloading is corrupt...) > > > > Ah, I wasn't advocating putting it into the "automated" path. > > Rather, consider someone who has *manually* ftp'ed stuff onto > > their DOS box and then started to unpack it all. This would > > give them a tool to test the integrity of each file before > > gzip chokes on it (which some of the recent posts seem to be > > griping about). > > OK, I was rambling a bit about why things had changed since "the good > old days". I think basically we're in violent agreement :-) > > > > > how about: > > > > cksum *.* > fudge > > > > comp fudge goodsums.lst > > Out of interest, is cksum supplied as a DOS program? I can't seem to > find it, but I've only got the 2.1.0 CDROM here. > > If it isn't, maybe the best answer would be to port it to DOS in such > a way that it would handle DOS's feeble globbing, and do any other > useful things we could think of - perhaps it could put up a simple > menu where you could say which dists you wanted to install (this > would also have the advantage of checking that the user had got > the directory structure right). > > (In case anyone isn't familiar with "globbing", if you type "foo *" > in a Unix shell, the shell expands the * and passes the program the > names of all the file in the directory. If you type the equivalent > "foo *.*" at a DOS command prompt, the program has to work them out > for itself). This is why I feel FreeBSD as a whole would be better off with a Dos based cksum that reads the .sum, (Created by those at FreeBSD) does a check sum on the file and compared the two all in one program. And yes it could even get menu driven.. (yuk) -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848
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