On Tue 09 Apr, Philip Hands wrote: > Hi, > I've been watching debian-cd running on open struggle with the trivia of > generating things like Packages files, and md5sums, and it occurs to me > that much of this could do with some work.
> For example the generation of the md5sum files would be done a lot > quicker by a perl script that picks the pre-calculated md5sums out of > the ftp archive's md5sum.gz file. > Before I start this, does anyone have any reasons not to do this? IMO > it's actually better to use the master md5sums, because it gives a > simple end-to-end sanity check. This seems reasonable, but will it work properly on non-official CDs - or are you only proposing this option for official CDs? ie on non-official Cds some packages are (potentially) replaced by local ones with different MD5sums. I don't think there is a pre-prepared md5sum.gz file to fish these out of (but Icould be wrong - I'm thoroughly out of date on how things have chaned in this area (scanpackages etal) between potato and woody. > A slightly more ambitious replacement would be to generate the Packages > files by taking the records out of the main archive's Packages files. Same proviso applies. Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]