Ryan Carsten Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 29, 2025, at 11:01, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate wrote: > >> What is the problem with just going back to rsync and hosting the >> uncompressed port tree? Then only the changed files would be downloaded for >> port sync. You could also offer a complete tarball available as an >> alternative, for new installs and full rebuilds. I feel like I am missing >> something here. > > We switched to using a tarball so that its integrity could be verified with a > signature. > > https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/476e4e15ff52ed1582cafa5d4be0476a6c05a5c1
AFAIK rsync can already do file-level integrity checksum checks, so maybe there is no need for this? Nils.
