Re: [gentoo-dev] Release files/portage snapshots auxiliary files naming scheme

[Marius Mauch]

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?

Not against unification, but using the snapshot format would probably be 
 the easier way, as emerge-webrsync (and maybe other tools) need at 
least the md5sum files for verification. And while changing that is 
trivial, deploying that change can take a long time.

Marius
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