On Wed, 2012 Jun 20 08:06-0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > Is it worth teaching get-deps.sh to download to a temporary file, and > only put it in place when the download is complete? Or to run a test > "unzip -l" or "tar tf -" on downloads to verify them before > proceeding? Partial, interrupted downloads are a real pain in the bum.
There are more comprehensive frameworks that do this sort of thing, like jhbuild. You'd want to be careful that get-deps.sh doesn't grow to become another take on the same idea :-) --Daniel -- Daniel Richard G. || sk...@iskunk.org My ASCII-art .sig got a bad case of Times New Roman.