On 10/14/06, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 12 October 2006 15:55, David Joyner wrote:
> > William Stein wrote:
> > > Justin,
> > >
> > > I'm adding some information to the file that gets created to indicate
> > > that a package
> > > has been installed.  E.g.,
> > >
> > > sha:~/s/spkg/standard was$ more ../installed/pexpect-2.0
> > > PACKAGE NAME: pexpect-2.0
> > > INSTALL DATE: Thu Oct 12 06:49:21 PDT 2006
> > > UNAME: Darwin sha.local 8.7.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.7.1: Wed Jun  7
> > > 16:19:56 P
> > > DT 2006; root:xnu-792.9.72.obj~2/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386
> > > SAGE VERSION: | SAGE Version 1.4, Build Date: 2006-10-05             |
> > >
> > > What do you think?  Is there anything else you can think of to add.   I
> >
> > Maybe off topic but can you add a mds check sum somehow? I don't even
> > know how
> > such things work but since you are asking about adding something, this
> > might be a time
> > to do something like that as a test case, if it isn't too hard to do.
>
> What would you calculate the checksum on? The spyx file to verify it has been
> downloaded correctly?

Yes (if you mean spkg instead of spyx). There would be a webpage on
sage.math with the correct checksum so you would need an internet
connection. It could be a command from within sage or maybe another
(optional) version of "sage -i".

>
> Just curious,
> Martin
>
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