Re: [Sks-devel] Idea: dump should create keycount.txt

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

On 11/07/2012 02:36 AM, Phil Pennock wrote:
> What do folks think of the idea of having "sks dump" also create a file
> called [prefix]keycount.txt ?
> 
> That way, folks who make dumps available will have a really easy way to
> also make a count of the keys available; depending on how they set up
> the dumping, it might even happen automatically with no extra work on
> their part.
> 
> Does this seem reasonable and worth coding?
> 

I quite like this idea. For now I've added a patch in my MQ [0] that,
while running on one of my development servers, output the format as
seen in #Snippet 1#. Feel free to test it.


## Snippet 1 ##
gentoo4 sks # cat dumptest/metadata-sks-dump.txt
#Metadata-for: keys5.kfwebs.net
#Dump-started: 2012-11-07 21:45:01
#Files-Count: 28
#Key-Count: 420000
#Checksums:
ef5a257aa60e83319f3522d4555cc15c sks-dump-0000.pgp
e3aa0304f4a323619d6cde2984da1e4b sks-dump-0001.pgp
8ebe2f43d477f49bf141aab79918e015 sks-dump-0002.pgp
999ea78dfa929045766246e03733ed39 sks-dump-0003.pgp
8fe8bc895cebd1cf8e04e28fda40da90 sks-dump-0004.pgp
01a5865a8df99bfe75b86a0fa4f14c3a sks-dump-0005.pgp
bcbd2f39d28fcc0b2476126f1c262b6d sks-dump-0006.pgp
5ee5f2d88fd9186e189a0c237522292f sks-dump-0007.pgp
bf4173d90eee36b914e67dd972e22805 sks-dump-0008.pgp
a137204345f96c9987b0e5c9f786237f sks-dump-0009.pgp
ae664cc593062d29b2bf2e6cd7d13de2 sks-dump-0010.pgp
3cd9419fbfbdee3d882ab24125885223 sks-dump-0011.pgp
e7b56a3b10090ef79aae9f599acef59c sks-dump-0012.pgp
def1c4bb0151a541166983451bae9109 sks-dump-0013.pgp
f23646816f06958e14d43ea1acf35a78 sks-dump-0014.pgp
ab008e43ec13e3e240ed1114f92ea24f sks-dump-0015.pgp
d8af7ef322420500a3cad917a017cd47 sks-dump-0016.pgp
9898800a7185d93e3a0da8921e34d018 sks-dump-0017.pgp
5f515a0255493f4a6f60232b6e04d534 sks-dump-0018.pgp
12e91a3bf390499bca8b518fdde2dd4c sks-dump-0019.pgp
529c64ec0020c746973d73e08004e103 sks-dump-0020.pgp
d405d7f6fe11bb823eecb1a68c3fdb85 sks-dump-0021.pgp
3efb91bf8f325b0f02b6c5f1aea09882 sks-dump-0022.pgp
9d3de3a14ff23f0784bf8fda3314c405 sks-dump-0023.pgp
0e02d9bfe5fd47b180522ae58e1a3609 sks-dump-0024.pgp
167ad023e8cc1862c227de2e25b654f2 sks-dump-0025.pgp
8c3a4013cac768c3b79d9afbb9a29165 sks-dump-0026.pgp
28f2452b3e15e8df349b6112ed98579f sks-dump-0027.pgp
#Dump-ended: 2012-11-07 21:45:06

## Endnotes ##

[0]
https://bitbucket.org/kristianf/sks-keyserver-patches/src/tip/DUMP_METADATA?at=default


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