Re: How to figure out if a package repository index has been updated.
On (28/04/06 21:33), Alex Polite wrote:
> 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.
Isn't there a checksum for all the Packages.gz in the Release file?
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James Westby
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