On 08/03/2011, at 19:29, Anders F Björklund wrote: >>> Anyway, we don't want filesizes and we don't want sha256 checksums. >>> It's implemented already, but not worth the effort fighting about... >> >> Isn't size useful so you can differentiate between a truncated download and >> a broken file? >> ISTR that's what FreeBSD uses SIZE for. > > Sure, but that's only if you are poor and care about resuming downloads. > Otherwise you can just delete the file and try again, in both cases...
Indeed, but it gives a misleading error message which can be confusing. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
