On 10/11/06, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
OK, it seems most devs agree to have $ARCH in package filename. Hmm.. but what about pacman2. Will there be a new version that will handle this?
This will be thought of. No one wants to break anything. We will not get ahead of ourselves. I think most of the collaborators here have enough programming experience to know how to handle things like this.
And, when we are going to change filenames of all packages, then why not to change tar.gz to tar.bz2 and md5sum to sha1sum (or even sha512sum) at the same time?
a) bz2 is slower to decompress. Adding CPU time for a slight amount of bandwidth saving etc etc, I can go on and on... libarchive should handle this regardless... it may actually work right now... personally, I don't really care. I just want my crap installed as fast as possible b) I don't feel that anything is gained from using sha1sums. md5 is the defacto file integrity check. We're not using md5 as a cryptographic algorithm, we're checking file integrity Regardless, you're getting ahead here... neither of these issues has been discussed at all. We need to take this one step at a time. Applying 30 changes then saying "poof, use this" is never a good idea.