Retry on checksum failures?

[Joshua Root]

David Evans wrote:
> Rainer Müller wrote:
>> So I suppose we should extend distcheck to also generate and compare
>> distcheck. I don't think an external tool would be easy to write, since
>> it would only work for fetch.type == "standard".
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>>   
> How about adding a value for distcheck.check of "checksum" that would
> provide this functionality
> so there is a choice?  As some pointed out, this can be a very heavy
> operation for large distributions
> with many sites.

Or perhaps an option like --checksum for distcheck.

- Josh