On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 10:20:55AM -0700, Cameron Dale wrote: > > 2) there's no guarantee that a file is unchanged when apt is run again Currently apt-get just uses the modification timestamp of the packages file to build the "If-Modified-Since" query. apt-get relies on an unmodified /var/lib/apt/lists/ -- Stefan Tichy ( dlist at pi4tel dot de )