Re: Distribution up to dateness timestamp?

To: David Welton <davidw@cks.com>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Distribution up to dateness timestamp?
From: Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>
Date: 29 Oct 1997 14:23:07 -0800
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In-reply-to: David Welton's message of "Wed, 29 Oct 1997 08:42:20 -0800 (PST)"
References: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.971029083651.13746B-100000@heorot.cks.com>

David Welton <davidw@cks.com> writes:
> The idea sort of wandered through my fevered brain that it would be handy
> to have some sort of timestamped Packages file or something similiar, so
> that one could easily check their distribution to see if it is 'current'
> without downloading the whole Packages file, which is  getting pretty slow
> over a 28.8.

I'm using Klee's dpkg-ftp-x here, and it already does that.

Cheers,

 - Jim

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