[Bug 286107] ports-mgmt/pkg: improvement request: only install files whose checksum have changed

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=286107

Mark Millard <marklmi26-fbsd@yahoo.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 CC|                            |marklmi26-fbsd@yahoo.com

--- Comment #4 from Mark Millard <marklmi26-fbsd@yahoo.com> ---
(In reply to p5B2EA84B3 from comment #3)

How is pkg supposed to check for file by
file differences without downloading the
new .pkg file that contains the information?
(You seem to be objecting to such downloads.)

You seem to effectively be requesting that
such information be stored in a separate,
smaller file to initially download such
information about the package contents
instead and then only download the full
.pkg file if at least one file changed?
(Or some variation on that theme.)

Or are you requesting file-by-file downloads
after the initial informational file,
no prebuilt .pkg file? (This has other
tradeoffs.)

So far, your notes to not seem to make a
coherent overall request unless I ignore
some of it and pick a subset.

It is one thing to locally not rewrite
specific files that have unchanged
content/permissions/etc. (with extra
time doing checksumming and comparisons
and the like to determine if
writing/updating anything is appropriate,
file by file). It is another thing to avoid
downloading anything for any file that did
not change.

Your new criteria seem less likely to be
implemented than the original description.

(Your original submittal read to me like
you were looking for a somewhat-rsync-like
updating of files from the files in a
.pkg file. But that, of itself, would not
avoid downloads of .pkg files, for example.)

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.