How to figure out if a package repository index has been updated.
I'm rewriting flosspick.org and learning Ruby on Rails at the same time.
dpkg-ruby doesn't take debtags into account so I need to write my own
stuff. One thing I'm trying to figure out is how one can know
whether a Packages.gz file in a repository has changed since you last
downloaded it *without* downloading it again.
Apparently there is a way to do this since two consecutive runs of
apt-get update will not get all index files afresh.
I skimmed the Debian Package Repository HOWTO but didn't find anything
in there to help me.
alex
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Alex Polite
http://flosspick.org - finding the right open source
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