Re: little? apt suggestion
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 06:29:27PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
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> On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Sarel Botha wrote:
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> > 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.
Should i submit a patch for apt-get so that it checks size as well? (if it
doesn't already) Surely the possibility of the size AND the timestamp on 2
files being the same is small enough?
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