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Re: calm: two patches
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:21:05 +0200
- Subject: Re: calm: two patches
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- References: <87bmzmbhbe.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <f05fc9bd-eaf5-ddf4-6c0d-917646acf762@dronecode.org.uk>
Jon Turney writes:
> Firstly, this doesn't do what's wanted (always use Base64 encoded
> hashes), as the hash is only computed here if it's not available from
> a sha512.sum file (which mirror maintenance scripts on sourceware
> generate for us)
>
> So, I guess the correct change would be to re-encode the sha512 hashes
> from hex to base64 somewhere.
OK, then that's the correct solution.
> I'm not sure I really see the value in that, though. It would reduce
> the length of the hashes from 86 to 128 characters, so setup.ini gets
> somewhat less that 33% smaller, but I'm sceptical that the size of the
> compressed setup.ini file changes much.
It shrinks by about 4% when compressed as .xz last I looked, but more
importantly for me anyway is that more of the lines don't wrap when I
look at those files.
Regards,
Achim.
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