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| From: | Jonathan McCune |
| Subject: | Re: test command and signature checks |
| Date: | Thu, 29 Jan 2015 06:17:42 -0800 |
On Jan 29, 2015 1:19 AM, "Andrei Borzenkov" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> What sematic of file tests should be? I think they should just test
> file existence; this already happens for compressed files that checks
> that on-disk file size, not uncompressed. I think same should apply to
> signature checks.
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Where the alternative is that an existence check will only succeed if a file has a corresponding (and verifiable) .sig?
I think existence-only is the right semantics because verify_detached can be used to achieve the signature-check in a standalone fashion.
(I.e., the existing behavior of test and verify_detached seems correct to me.)
> May be file checks should simply disable all filters unconditionally
> to become more lightweight.
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