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Hello, It's that time of the year where i ask you for your kind help on improvments for the benefit of all parties involved... Would it be possible that the server's gnu listing to provide a checksum (sha256 for example) for the given listed files? Something along the lines of what's been done in pypi (providing sha256), npm (sha256), and on the near future guix/nix listing api (some example can be found at [1]) This would allow us to implement optimization to avoid hitting the gnu server too often (as we do for the pypi [2] or npm [3] servers). [1] https://forge.softwareheritage.org/D2025 [2] https://forge.softwareheritage.org/source/swh-loader-core/browse/package-loader/swh/loader/package/pypi.py$141 [3] https://forge.softwareheritage.org/source/swh-loader-core/browse/package-loader/swh/loader/package/npm.py$256 Cheers, -- tony / Antoine R. Dumont (@ardumont) ----------------------------------------------------------------- gpg fingerprint BF00 203D 741A C9D5 46A8 BE07 52E2 E984 0D10 C3B8

Hello, It's the time of the year where I ask you (again!) for your help to better archive GNU source code in the Software Heritage archive. Would it be possible to change the format of the GNU file listing [1] to also include SHA256 checksums? [1]: https://ftp.gnu.org/tree.json.gz Doing so would (1) help us (Software Heritage) avoid re-downloading files (hence also reducing load on your end) and (2) help your users detecting corruption of download files. Cheers, -- tony / Antoine R. Dumont (@ardumont) ----------------------------------------------------------------- gpg fingerprint BF00 203D 741A C9D5 46A8 BE07 52E2 E984 0D10 C3B8

Hello, It's thate time of the year where i ask you for your kind help on improvments for the benefit of all parties involved... Would it be possible that the server's gnu listing to provide a checksum (sha256 for example) for the given listed files?I ask you (again!) for your help to better archive GNU source code in the Software Heritage archive. Something along the lines of what's been done in pypi (providing sha256), npm (sha256), and on the near future guix/nix listing api (some example can be found at [1])Would it be possible to change the format of the GNU file listing [1] to also include SHA256 checksums? This would allow us to implement optimization to avoid hitting the gnu server too often (as we do for the pypi [2] or npm [3] servers).[1]: https://ftp.gnu.org/tree.json.gz [1] https://forge.softwareheritage.org/D2025 [2] https://forge.softwareheritage.org/source/swh-loader-core/browse/package-loader/swh/loader/package/pypi.py$141 [3] https://forge.softwareheritage.org/source/swh-loader-core/browse/package-loader/swh/loader/package/npm.py$256Doing so would (1) help us (Software Heritage) avoid re-downloading files (hence also reducing load on your end) and (2) help your users detecting corruption of download files. Cheers, -- tony / Antoine R. Dumont (@ardumont) ----------------------------------------------------------------- gpg fingerprint BF00 203D 741A C9D5 46A8 BE07 52E2 E984 0D10 C3B8