Re: Feature request

(Oct 15 2004 12:13) Morten Nilsen wrote:
> Tor Hveem wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Is that a recent addition? because that seems to go against the numbers
> I read...

swup: 0.0.8 - olafb
- Added support for gz'ed files.
- Now checking md5sum on latest-files and cache parsed data.


:)


c


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