Announcing summershum

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 01:47:08PM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Dne 12.2.2014 12:44, Matthew Miller napsal(a):
> > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 09:46:27AM +0100, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> >> So Ralph and I wrote summershum, it's a simple database storing for each file in
> >> each package:
> >>  - the packages name
> >>  - the filename
> >>  - the sha1sum of the file
> >>  - the tarball name
> >>  - the md5sum of the tarball
> >>  - a creation date
> > Neat!
> >
> > So, I have one small suggestion and one possibly-too ambitious one. 
> >
> > The small one is that it might be nice to include the output of `file` on
> > each file. 

Technically doable but I'm curious, what use-case do you have in mind?

Plus I've ran into:
$ file /usr/share/doc/python-magic-5.04/example.py -b
ASCII Java program text

Seems legit, right? :)

> The `file` output would need to be store with `file` version, since its
> output is not stable in my experience.

That's not a problem, we stored the tarball name which does contain the version


Pierre