Re: little? apt suggestion
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Sarel Botha wrote:
> what i usually do is run an update after the rename anyway, if it's the same
> Packages file it doesn't download again, else it does. But what I would do in
> the program is do a check before doing the rename, just like apt does a check
> before downloading a Packages file.
This doesn't work as well as you'd like due to timezone skew, evil ftp
servers and ftp mirrors :< The timestamp is only reliable over small sets
of mirrors.
Jason
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