Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > It just has to compare the last modified time of the hdlist or synthesis in >> > /var/lib/urpmi/ and in the mirrors. >> > It's very quick to check the attributes of this files on ftp mirrors. >> >> The descriptions file is a small file (currently 62k for 9.1), that is >> added to, so it should "continue" (ie wget -c) very well, and should be >> pretty quick to check, and for free we get the descriptions of what the >> new updates are. > > Though you need at least the synthesis to determine against local > rpmdb if some updates would be necessary for your machine (as > urpmc does I guess).
Not really, even that has information that's needed *just* to determine if you need updates. Didn't MandrakeUpdate back when it was a seperate app just download a directory listing of the RPMS in the updates, and use the filenames to get the versions?
