brian white writes ("Re: Package Verification "): > This is fine, but it doesn't help with verifying packages on > non-Debian systems as is required by people who must do an actual FTP > >from another machine. As for the format, feel free to alter it. I > figured I would be parsing this line out of the Packages file, anyway. > As long as it has file size, there is at least some sort of > verification that can be done regardless of the machine being used.
I suppose we could put the file size in the Packages file; it just might get a bit cluttered with all of this information. What do people feel about this ? Ian.