Chris Adams

@vaseem-khan Have you by any chance already written tests for this?

> @acdha is it okay if I add tests to cover the CLI? It would have caught the bug I fixed in [61769cd](https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/bagit-python/commit/61769cda626c8493b6a733885a407915f4ada63f), but I hadn't seen an approach to...

Just time to test it - it’s been on my todo list for a while

Note also that I want to change this as part of the upcoming work @edsu and I are planning so the code can be used with non-POSIX filesystems where the...

Do other tools work with those files? That looks like an issue with the flash card interface.

Can you try copying them to a local filesystem and then seeing if they get errors? bagit.py normally handles zero-byte files without an issue so I was wondering whether this...

Is that crossing a filesystem boundary (network home directories or mounts under that directory?) and/or do you have something like anti-virus or HSM software installed which is breaking POSIX semantics?...

Once the files have been downloaded, the regular bag validation process will handle it. We've been hesitant to put download support into bagit-python because it generally tends to get into...

I was just explaining why it hasn't happened before now. I do think there is a valid convenience argument for having a basic downloader for people who don't want anything...

I think the idea is that we'd have a simple fetch function and then immediately call `validate()` afterwards. It looks like https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/bagit-python/pull/119#issuecomment-444962002 also has some additional validation checks for things...