Re: Checksums.ini again - new format this time

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

On 02-11-09 03:06, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
> On Sunday 01 November 2009 21:35:32 Leon Woestenberg wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Marcin Juszkiewicz
>>
>> <marcin@juszkiewicz.com.pl>  wrote:
>>> [archivename]
>>> url0=url-to-sources
>>> url1=alternative-url-to-sources
>>> url2=another-alternative-url-to-sources
>>> md5=md5sum
>>> sha256=sha256sum
>>
>> Can we simplify this a bit? i.e.
>>
>> archivename
>> url=url-to-sources
>> url=alternative-url-to-sources
>> url=another-alternative-url-to-sources
>> md5=md5sum
>> sha256=sha256sum
>>
>> Why not just url instead of url0, url1, url2, ... ?
>
> the problem with archivename there is no gurantee that the name will be
> globally unique. E.g. with Open Palmtop Integreated Environment (OPIE) One
> Password.. (OPIE) there was a clash and we might or might not have had a clash
> in release versions too...

Archives get stored by archive name in DL_DIR already, so that's a moot 
point.

regards,

Koen