Re: Checksum failure encountered with download

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 22:37 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 03:44:41PM -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> > Sorry for not noticing this sooner.
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > My proposal is to add md5sum of downloaded file to ChecksumError and
> > > rename it to <file>.<md5sum> in "if isinstance(e, ChecksumError):"
> > 
> > Would it be possible to make this behaviour configurable for those who
> > might be concerned about disk space? Or perhaps while renaming and
> > saving it, also move it into the $TMPDIR directory and/or tie this
> > feature in with rm_work?
> > 
> > I'm just thinking that over time one's DL_DIR could potentially become
> > rather cluttered with lots of failed downloads. Only some people would
> > be interested in seeing the failures and the rest would have to remove
> > them manually. I'm also thinking of the scenario where the DL_DIR is
> > shared/sync'ed among a group of people/computers; that could add up to
> > quite a bit of data to share.
> 
> I can make it configurable, but I think that bad-checksums should be
> only in few exceptional cases, while package upgrades are common.
> 
> That said 90% of my downloads directory are old versions I keep just to
> be able to recreate old builds with upstream sources already gone and
> now I've one renamed bad-checksum tarball from evas-1.7.6.1...

Agreed, I'd hope this isn't something which happens that often.

Cheers,

Richard