Raf Czlonka wrote: > This is unrelated to your diff but what I do instead is to check > the BUILDINFO file - it's tiny and all the information you need, > is already there.
While we're on the subject, I'll point out that sometimes only the base sets change, but not the x sets. If you download SHA256 you can download only files that differ. (This also may work better if you switch mirrors or the timestamps drift for other reasons.) It's just a few lines of shell, though I don't have them handy atm. (And for bonus points, you can use SHA256.sig and verify it's correct, then verify that BUILDINFO hasn't been tampered with, etc...) ftp/http should still do the right thing, of course.
