<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 6:46 PM, James Cameron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank">quozl@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Too much noise is a good argument.<br>
<br>
Solutions can be;<br>
<br>
0.  omit the checksums if they are used less than 10% of the time<br>
(check your logs),<br>
<br>
1.  use one file to contain all checksums, e.g. MD5SUMS,<br>
<br>
2.  don't use Apache indexes, but instead use a script or template to<br>
generate friendly HTML with file name, checksum, on one line,<br>
<br>
Also, it surprises me you-all aren't using any digital signatures on<br>
the files; but then I think of your user base who wouldn't necessarily<br>
have the time to be able to verify one, let alone an MD5.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Good suggestions all around, thanks James-<br><br></div><div>For now it seems we're on a deadline, and with no objections over the past 3-4 days, we'll just push ahead Tim's suggestion  to ditch/remove *.IMG.MD5.TXT from <a href="http://download.iiab.io">http://download.iiab.io</a> to reduce noise.<br><br></div><div>George,<br><br></div><div>Can you go ahead now and remove line 72 from <a href="https://github.com/iiab/iiab-factory/blob/master/box/rpi/cp-sd">https://github.com/iiab/iiab-factory/blob/master/box/rpi/cp-sd</a> ?<br>   <span style="background-color:rgb(255,0,0)">md5sum <span class="gmail-pl-smi">$FILENAME</span> <span class="gmail-pl-k">></span> <span class="gmail-pl-smi">$FILENAME</span>.md5.txt</span><br><br>Keeping line 73...<br>   <span style="background-color:rgb(0,255,0)">md5sum <span class="gmail-pl-smi">$FILENAME</span>.zip <span class="gmail-pl-k">></span> <span class="gmail-pl-smi">$FILENAME</span>.zip.md5.txt</span></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br>
James Cameron<br>
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