versioned container testing

[Denis Bitouzé]

Le 19/11/19 à 17h01, Karl Berry a écrit :

> previously requested/discussed at
> https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2019-August/044030.html etc.

I don't fully understand the underlying problem and didn't read the
whole thread but just a naive question. In:

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Brook said:

  The first time a pkgsrc bulk build happens (which is more or less
  daily), it will download foo-1.2.3.tar.xz from CTAN and verify the
  checksum.

Wouldn't be possible for CTAN to provide the `foo-1.2.3.tar.xz.sha512'
checksum file of `foo-1.2.3.tar.xz' next to the latter? Hence the pkgsrc
bulk build could download only this `.sha512' instead of the possibly
very large `.xz' and would save bandwith.
-- 
Denis