[wp-hackers] Upgrade sanity checks

[Otto]

Hmmm... A quick check tells me that trunk has 487 files. I don't know
that it would be a good idea to make 487 requests to get those md5's.

Does svn offer any way to get them all at once?


On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Peter Westwood
<peter.westwood at ftwr.co.uk> wrote:
>
>  On 27 Feb 2008, at 21:06, Matt Mullenweg wrote:
>
>  > Otto wrote:
>  >> One way would be to have it load some other file which is a list of
>  >> all the WordPress files, then check (and potentially hash) them
>  >> all to
>  >> ensure that they are unchanged. Every time a new release occurred,
>  >> that file would need to be generated as part of the release process.
>  >> Of course, you would want a failure to not *stop* the upgrade, but to
>  >> get confirmation. The best user experience would be to put up a
>  >> warning message saying "These WordPress files don't appear to be the
>  >> correct versions: (list of files here). Proceed with upgrade anyway?
>  >> WARNING: Proceeding may cause unexpected results! Do not proceed
>  >> without knowing what you're doing. (Proceed / For the love of god
>  >> stop!)"
>  >
>  > I think that's a great idea.
>
>
>  I discussed the idea of exposing the hashs with matt last year.
>
>  When I looked into implementing something to be deployed on wp.org I
>  found to my delight that svn gives us everything we need already!
>
>  peter at epia (wireless:S.4) trunk 0 0.21 s $ svn info wp-blog-header.php
>  ...
>  Checksum: 9f85abee432181b0b8e8f28310cff11b
>
>  peter at epia (wireless:S.4) trunk 0 0.16 s $ curl http://
>  svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/wp-blog-header.php --request PROPFIND
>  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>  ...
>  <lp2:md5-checksum>9f85abee432181b0b8e8f28310cff11b</lp2:md5-checksum>
>  ...
>
>  peter at epia (wireless:S.4) trunk 0 0.19 s $ md5sum wp-blog-header.php
>  9f85abee432181b0b8e8f28310cff11b  wp-blog-header.php
>
>
>  So if we want to expose the info it is very easy to get at.
>
>  Anyone fancy writing something which uses the last one to validate an
>  install based on the svn tag?
>
>  westi
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