2006/10/11, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>:
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
I know that bz2 decompressing is slower, but does "as fast as possible" also include downloading time? bz2 will be downloaded faster, because it has less size. ;-)
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
Then why Frugalware guys use it instead of md5 now? What advantages it gives them? I'm just curious.
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.
I understand, but "one step a time" can be not so good if there will be few something-breaking steps instead of one. OK, I don't want to go too much ahead. So I'll wait until right time comes... :-) -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)