On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 12:44, Chris Tooley wrote:
> I would imagine that bandwidth gets pretty expensive when you have
> people downloading packages they already have installed, just so they
> can get the "latest" snapshot.  It doesn't really make any sense to keep
> running rpm upgrades on packages if the files don't change, that's just
> asking for something to break.

Well, no. If you look at the list of packages, and they're all the same
date as what you have, why would you waste your time downloading them
all over again? No wasted bandwidth there, except to log into the FTP
server and check.

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