Filesize in Portfiles (was Re: [76684] trunk/dports/sysutils/rpm/Portfile)

Anders F Björklund afb at macports.org
Tue Mar 8 06:25:42 PST 2011


Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> Sure, but that's only if you are poor and care about resuming downloads.
>> Otherwise you can just delete the file and try again, in both cases...
> 
> A less than ideal user experience.

So you *do* want the file sizes ? I thought it was without a
valuable usage case and better off being handled by libcurl ?

Oh well, I'll just stick with the md5/sha1/rmd160 for now...
Can revisit, when/if digests escape from within the Portfile.

--anders



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