From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2nvu-0001GP-6M for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:35:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7AAYKU6014194; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:34:20 GMT Received: from mta11.adelphia.net (mta11.adelphia.net [68.168.78.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7AAWg4c031199 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:32:43 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.165] (really [68.168.137.100]) by mta11.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.01 201-2131-118-101-20041129) with ESMTP id <20050810103311.ZEJG24042.mta11.adelphia.net@[192.168.0.165]> for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 06:33:11 -0400 Message-ID: <42F9D7E7.5000200@leetworks.com> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 06:33:11 -0400 From: Andrew Muraco User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050723) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Release files/portage snapshots auxiliary files naming scheme References: <1123669774.8761.13.camel@sponge.fungus> In-Reply-To: <1123669774.8761.13.camel@sponge.fungus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 23ebe02c-debe-41e8-bd58-296765cbe229 X-Archives-Hash: b05ef7cff30b119f8a5078c379cfe52e Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: >Hi, > >Currently the files that accompany our release files (ISO images, >stages) are named in the following scheme: > > *.asc for GPG signatures > *.md5 for MD5 sums > >while the files that accompany our portage snapshots are named: > > *.gpgsig for GPG signatures > *.md5sum for MD5 sums > >I suggest we unify the naming scheme to the one currently in use by our >release files to avoid unnecessary confusion amongst our end-users - >unless of course there is a good reason for having different naming >schemes for release files and portage snapshots? > >Sincerely, >Brix > > Don't you think its a bit trival, but on the other hand, yes i agree that unifying them wouldnt be a bad thing, its just a matter of getting it done, and updating the documentation to reflect the changes (minor changes :-P) I say 'Do it.' ---------------------------- Andrew Muraco -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list