On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 06:23:38PM +0800, jklyekai wrote: > In the http://pkg.opensolairs.org when I click a package I will see some > files like below. I know that file's name is its sha1sum But chash is > what? and pkg.csize ? how to compute it?
chash and csize are the hash and size of the gzip-compressed file as it comes over the wire. This lets us verify the hash of the file on the client without having to uncompress it, and it lets us have a more accurate download meter than if we were to use the uncompressed size. Danek
