Re: Feature request

Tor Hveem <[email protected]> Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:05:31 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.trustix.swup
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Fredag 15. oktober 2004 07:13 skreiv Morten Nilsen:
> The tinysofa distro replaced swup with apt in the enterprise version,
> and one of the reasons listed, was that apt didn't download anything if
> nothing was new... ie. it checked the timestamp of it's "latest.rdf"
> before downloading it..
>
> I think swup should do this as well, and only get the latest.rdf if it
> is newer than the one in the cache.

Swup checks the cached md5sum against the remote md5sum and only downloads if 
they differ.

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Tor Hveem