On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:52:08AM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > Why is this needed? apt-get will send an If-Modified-Since: header to > a HTTP server, so all it needs to do is hit each Packages file in turn... If the woody main archive has changed only by a package, I still have to download nearly 1 meg with my modem. > (Probably a smarter approach is to rsync the uncompressed Packages > files; it's about the only thing rsync is good for with a compressed > archive like Debian's.) This would be ideal, I guess. -- Jordi Mallach Pérez || jordi@pusa.informat.uv.es || Rediscovering Freedom, aka Oskuro in || jordi@sindominio.net || Using Debian GNU/Linux Reinos de Leyenda || jordi@debian.org || http://debian.org http://sindominio.net GnuPG public information: pub 1024D/917A225E telnet pusa.uv.es 23 73ED 4244 FD43 5886 20AC 2644 2584 94BA 917A 225E
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