Le Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 11:43:18AM +0100, Philip Hands écrivait: > If the CD building machine had a tendency to corrupt data comming off > it's disks (as happened with a previous incarnation of open) or the > mirroring run had failed in a subtle way, then a simple loop mount of > each image, and running md5sum -c on each, should catch that straight > away if the md5sums were not locally recalculated.
You can do whatever you want, but we should try to limit the number of dependencies we create against the mirror. What I mean is that it should still work even if the md5sum.gz is missing from the local mirror... > A slightly more ambitious replacement would be to generate the Packages > files by taking the records out of the main archive's Packages files. I don't think it's worth it. On the contrary, building it again using the overrides file (local and from the mirror) is a good idea since it lets you define your own "standard" for example (overriding Debian's "standard" distribution). > Opinions? Yeah, you're one of the very few people who builds images for all arches, so it's an improvement for you since it would be faster ... but I don't see what other wins we'd have. The possibility that the files get corrupted between the mirror and the CD set is quite limited. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]