new setup for testing
Max Bowsher
maxb@ukf.net
Tue May 24 11:16:00 GMT 2005
Brian Dessent wrote:
> "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
>
>> This doesn't work for me anymore when called with -5 parameter.
>> I have W2K Prof.
>
> That was a change of Max's. The --no-md5 / -5 option is gone
> completely, as is the functionality it was meant to inhibit. There is
> no more pre-checking of md5s for local repositories. Setup now just
> checks md5's of packages it is about to install, regardless of source.
> I have to agree that it did seem a bit silly to md5 the entire local
> package repository each time, rather than just checking packages that
> are about to be installed.
Oh, it was even worse than that! :-)
Or better, if you like irony.
It was doing the full check, and then checking the packages that were to be
installed *again* !
Max.
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