Re: Re: Inching towards new release...

On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 06:15 -0800, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 03:06:25AM -0800, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > For a release officially supporting repo-md I think the filelists.xml
> > support should be part of it, but release early, release often is
> > always a better plan. How about tagging repo-md support as a preview
> > feature if filelists.xml support doesn't make it?
> Filelists.xml is a bit of a PITA in many ways: apt will probably have to 
> download them on each apt-get update "just in case" which is a hefty 
> download for very little use but dynamically downloading only when 
> needed like yum does might not be possible on apt, at least without 
> breaking Synaptic in the process.

How about just matching the file size and last modified? Or - if one
really wants to, store an MD5SUM of the current local version and
compare it with MD5SUM on the remote server (requires another file in
that directory, but I don't see any large problems with that regard).