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Ben Reser wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:43:00PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
>
>>Have you looked at the descriptions file which is present on update
>>sources, and saved in /var/lib/urpmi for update sources?
>
> Or for that matter the list files.
>

AFAIK, they are not always kept locally, whereas AFAIK for update
sources, the descriptions file is always kept locally (so you can easily
diff the current one against the previous one, and show the user new
package updates). And it most likely has the kind of information the
user wants, rather than the changelogs.

> urpmi.update already looks to see if it needs to download the hdlist
> files again before doing so...  So if there's been no updates you don't
> have to download "megabytes"

But if there has been an update, which you aren't interested in, you do.

And at present, hdlist for updates for 9.1 is 3.3MB, and synthesis list
won't have any useful information.

Regards,
Buchan

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