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

[John Clizbe]

Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> 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
<snip>
> 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

Rather than add a new file to the dump process, why not just improve the
inadequate output that goes into dump.log?

Granted things like the per-file checksums would need to be generated post
facto, but per-file key counts and running totals would be an easy add along
with grand totals.




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