Hey, Thanks for your report I will take care of that.
On Apr 12, 2013, at 2:15 AM, grarpamp <grarp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Noticed that at least ports/i386/packages-9-stable is missing > its CHECKSUM.MD5 file. > > Of course people shouldn't use it for what they think it's for, > because it's not signed and uses a broken hash function. > Hopefully that will be updated to signed sha1/256/3 before long. > > However it does make for a good 'TIMESTAMP' file to detect when > new packages appear. Ftp's internal or external 'ls -tT' can't be counted > on for this across mirrors because such options to ls are mirror dependant. > And there's no simple way to locally sort the ftp list output by date > without rigging in perl, etc. And an overwrite of the same file may not > stamp the parent directory, which also doesn't appear reliably '.' while > in the current directory. > > In short, I'd suggest making a formal TIMESTAMP file for when package > updates are pushed out so people can key off that instead. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > +-----------------oOO--(_)--OOo-------------------------+ With best Regards, Martin Wilke (miwi_(at)_FreeBSD.org) Mess with the Best, Die like the Rest _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"