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Re: Removing "brik" from release script
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk>
- To: Volker Reichelt <reichelt at igpm dot rwth-aachen dot de>
- Cc: mark at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 19:29:40 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: Removing "brik" from release script
- References: <200404071901.i37J1gJD017988@relay.rwth-aachen.de>
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Volker Reichelt wrote:
> I'd vote for keeping "brik".
>
> If you have a slow connection, it's easier to download the diffs instead
> of the full tarball. After applying the diff, "brik" can guarantee that
> everything went alright.
Using md5sum would save the need for a nonstandard tool to check things.
find . -type f |sed 's:^\./::' |sort |xargs md5sum >MD5SUMS
(and md5sum -c <MD5SUMS for verification - htdocs/snapshots.html would
need updating).
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk