Christian Hammers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Every entry in the packages line has a MD5sum entry. Why not taking this > as index and let apt-get ask only for new entries much like the way news > server check new articles against a history file.
i don't quite follow what you mean, but your post did give me an idea: this would either need to be implimented as a CGI or as a full-blown tcp service. someone would need to write a program that reads Packages.gz like cucipop reads mailbox files. this program could use the string "\n\nPackage:" as a divider between entries. here's the dialog: client -> server "my database is up to date as of 950489026. please send me any entries that have changed." server -> client <sends the text of any entries that have changed> this would require that we store timestamps in the package files, but that shouldn't break anything. i know that folks behind some firewalls might not be able to update this anymore, which sucks. the other method would be to impliment this as a cgi that gets referenced in sources.list. what do you folks think? -- (jacob kuntz) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],underworld}.net (megabite systems) "think free speech, not free beer." (gnu foundataion)
