Re: new setup for testing

["Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>]

Brian Dessent wrote:
> "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
>
> > This doesn't work for me anymore when called with -5 parameter.
> > I have W2K Prof.
>
> That was a change of Max's.  The --no-md5 / -5 option is gone
> completely, as is the functionality it was meant to inhibit.  There is
> no more pre-checking of md5s for local repositories.  Setup now just
> checks md5's of packages it is about to install, regardless of source.
> I have to agree that it did seem a bit silly to md5 the entire local
> package repository each time, rather than just checking packages that
> are about to be installed.

Oh, it was even worse than that! :-)
Or better, if you like irony.
It was doing the full check, and then checking the packages that were to be 
installed *again* !

Max.