---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Zachary Harris <zacharyharris(a)hotmail.com> Date: Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 5:49 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] "Latest" md5sums of dumps To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org It is a bit confusing that http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20121001/enwiki-20121001-md5sums.txt has newer hash values that aren't in http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-md5sums.txt. I'm guessing that the "latest" md5sums files get updated only at the end of a cycle when all dumps for the month have been completed? (In other words, the idea is that the "latest" directory contains backups that have been *completed*, and the md5sums file isn't complete until *all of the other backups* which it is going to reference are complete.) I was expecting the "latest" md5sums file to have "rolling" content matching the rolling content of the "latest" directory itself. If the latter is possible without too great of administrative hassle, it could be a nice feature. Otherwise, it would seem that "latest-md5sums" is almost always outdated relative to the other files in "latest". -Zach _______________________________________________ Xmldatadumps-l mailing list Xmldatadumps-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/xmldatadumps-l

On 10/08/2012 11:36 PM, Hydriz Wikipedia wrote: I was actually hoping to go the other direction---keeping the September and October dumps (to use the present example) mixed together in "latest", but having the latest md5sums file track with the mixture. The above suggestion would almost certainly be an easier way to maintain consistency between the dumps and the md5sums file. My request would maintain a "hot" up-to-date "latest" directory with consistent md5sums, although admittedly it may not be worth the trouble if doing so is not straightforward. -Zach _______________________________________________ Xmldatadumps-l mailing list Xmldatadumps-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/xmldatadumps-l