Re: solving some of our FTP problems

1995-12-17 Thread Ian Murdock
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd love that feature too. But that either requires a damn good script, or that everybody uses the same .changes format. I think everyone *should* be using the same format. Bill has addressed my complaints and suggestions about the old dchanges

Re: solving some of our FTP problems

1995-12-17 Thread Ian Murdock
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Bruce Perens wrote: Everybody has problems with truncated uploads, etc. Generally they can't fix them by themselves. I wanted to repair this by automating the FTP archive process to check against the changes file and then move the file into place. Ian Murdock objected to

Re: solving some of our FTP problems

1995-12-10 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : I think we should arrive at a happy medium - uploads : are verified against their .changes file and moved into an accessable : area that is not their final resting place. Ian can then move them, with : the confidence that their integrity has been checked,

Re: solving some of our FTP problems

1995-12-10 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Bdale Garbee writes: Bdale This solves the problem, since Pending wouldn't allow uploads, and Bdale only things that look like packages with changes files for which all Bdale the pieces look intact would be copied. Scripting this doesn't seem Bdale hard, either... wake up once in a