On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 00:49, 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. > 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" Yah, but if there's been a 50kB update, you might have to pull 3 or 4MB of hdlist to find out what it is. My way, you only have to pull the few kB of appendage to hdlist to find out what else to fetch. Cheers; Leon
