To catch back up here, I'll just note that we did some work in the ant checksum task to get it to output in various formats BSD/GNU etc. There was an excellent thread last year that really resolved this subject in the Ant community
http://www.ant-tasks.com/msg/17054.html
-Mark
Henk P. Penning wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Brett Porter wrote:
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:08:22 +1100 From: Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: repository thoughts
Hi folks,
I've put up basically a TODO list from recent discussions. Sorry it took so long.
http://wiki.apache.org/ASFRepository/BrettPorter
Did I miss anything?
Brett,
This is a very good start ; thanks.
-- MD5 checksum format : in my experience the format doesn't matter much ; it is always easy to grab a 32 byte hex number from any format. Counter examples are easy to find of course (filenames like '41eab7db2910a04500751bbc2ed7f5bf') but in general, different formats aren't a problem.
Perhaps it is wize to state that md5 checksums should be in a '.md5' (lowercase) file because some people put the md5 checksum in a '.MD5' file.
-- For cleanup purposes it would be nice if one could link something (X) in the repository, to something (Y) in '/dist/' : we can flag X for removal if Y is gone.
Brett
Henk Penning
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