From 85356d186427b2f6dd6dbe1cbe6796c9698c861e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John-Mark Gurney Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 14:55:33 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] remove note about RC1 and the like, we handle them now... --- README.md | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index ecd1877..9e046b7 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -41,19 +41,17 @@ most snapshots from 2015 and before. The tool could be updated to include SHA256, but not a priority currently, and most/all are not available for download. -NOTE: Not all of the snapshots are in the database. Some snapshot names, -like 11.0-RC1, don't contain all the info others do, and are not -included. In the future, hopefully this will be fixed. - backend ------- -The backend is just a simple text file the indexes all the published +The backend is just a simple text file which indexes all the published snapshots. It is built from the emails to the freebsd-snapshot list. After verification of the email's signature, the SHA512 entry lines are extracted, the file name is parsed, and added to the complete index. The message-id of the email is in the index so that the frontend -can d/l the original email, verify the GPG signature locally. The +can d/l the original email and verify the GPG signature locally. The complete index is used for verifying a snapshot that has already been downloaded. Another index is also maintained which only contains the -currently available to d/l snapshots. +currently available to d/l snapshots. This may contain snapshots that +no longer exist, as it is only updated/checked when a new snapshot is +released.