cvs commit: ports/archivers/9e distinfo ports/archivers/bzip distinfo ports/archivers/cabextract distinfo ports/archivers/dact distinfo ports/archivers/fastjar distinfo ports/archivers/gshar+gunsh

[Jason Harris]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 07:16:06AM -0500, Trevor Johnson wrote:

> > > Hum, that I read, but it only talked of a new feature that we could use if
> > > we wanted. The question is still there, should we (port committers) use it
> > > in our make.conf and have the SIZE field present event if USE_SIZE is not
> > > defined in the Makefile ?

> I think it would only cause minor confusion.  Users can just be told that
> the feature hasn't been deployed in all ports.

NetBSD seems pretty thorough in their recording of distfile sizes
and I think FreeBSD should be too:

  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=61972
 
> So far I've added SIZE lines to 3% of all ports.  What do you propose?

FWIW, I have sizes, SHA-1, RIPEMD160/RMD160, and SHA256 hashes for most
of the ports/distfiles.  Anyone who wants the data in raw form is welcome
to it, and I can work up a mega-patch as well.

> simultaneously so they list sizes?  What I am intending to do is to
> gradually--a few categories at a time--add size lines to the ports
> maintained by me and those in the care of ports@, altogether 30% of the
> collection.  If only a handful of ports have the information, I doubt
> users will bother to look for it.

I think a mega-patch can be audited easily enough (egrep -e "+MD5|-MD5")
that even security-officer@ shouldn't object to adding sizes to all
ports at once.  Also, the size data can be independently verified and/or
obtained on bento and/or ftp-master, for most ports.

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