Removing "brik" from release script

Joseph S. Myers jsm@polyomino.org.uk
Wed Apr 7 19:29:00 GMT 2004


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



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