I'd like to suggest another field to be automatically added to the
"Packages" files that exist at the top of each hierarchy in the
distribution. I'd like to see a "Checksum:" field that can be used to
verify the correct download of these packages. I think including both
an 'md5sum' and a (filesize) would be best as the file size would
allow a reasonable check on non-Debian systems and the 'md5sum' would
allow absolute verification before installation.
Example:
checksum: d14d384e0895986bc9f2b09f0a8b84fc (295393)
The reason for this is so programs like 'dftp' can verify that they
retrieved the packages correctly before attempting to install them.
Comments, anyone?
Brian
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