Re: content addressable fetching of packages, through MD5SUM or SHA1SUM?

[Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.kabel.utwente.nl>]

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Leon Woestenberg schreef:
| Hello,
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| I wonder if someone knows about a content addressable file server, or
| content addressable URL server?
|
| The idea is that the bitbake fetcher does not use the SRC_URI provided
| URL per se, but can fall back to use the SHA1SUM or MD5SUM to ask
| "something" for alternative locations of the package.
|
|
| Such a "server" would implement a two table database:
|
| |authentic file name|md5sum|sha1sum|
|
| (the primary key is |md5sum|sha1sum|)
|
| In a different table, all instances of valid URI that provide this
| content are collected
|
| |md5sum|sha1sum|URI|
|
|
| Now, this might be a Google SoC project, and something that Google
| should have already.

what about:

for archive in * ; do
~   ln -sf $archive $(md5sum $archive)
~   ln -sf $archive $(sha256sum $archive)
done

That's the quick and dirty way :) If someone comes up with a script, I
can run in on the angstrom source mirror for people to test against.

regards,

Koen
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