On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Ben Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Wed Apr 13 12:06:46 -0400 2011: > >> That may as well just go with the output from "ls -l $CATALOG" rather >> than having to actually parse the catalog ? > > But you also need a way to compare the catalog you fetched with this > value.
wget preserves the timestamp, though... ? > I think both things would be useful. Embedded and externally > available. Quite possibly. but we still have the more important higher level need, of informing the user somehow, "value X is the latest". James writes: >Which is tricky when the server fails give a date or the mirrors have >the wrong time set or someone copies the file without the time stamp. If someone has copied the file without the timestamp, they have done a one-time copy, and are not using usual pkgutil/pkg-get update channels. If so, seems like they dont care so much about "what is latest"? [note to pessimistic people: I'm not drawing out this discussion to be difficult :-p I'm trying to flesh out and fully understand use cases. It does not serve us well, if we implement a "solution" to something that is non-applicable to start with. Contrariwise, a poorly understood use case, may have a different problem, that we have not yet seen, that still needs addressing] _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
