Development and pending features

Anders F Björklund afb at algonet.se
Tue Aug 12 06:12:54 PDT 2008


Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:

>> I found a few minor typos, but otherwise it seemed to be working OK.
>> It did want to fetch the PACKAGES.TXT file new every time, though ?
>
> Is there some kind of "digest" file which smaller and could be used to
> consider if the big one has changed or not?

Yes, there is a "CHECKSUM.md5" file which is slightly smaller and
has a signature so their loading order should probably be flipped.

But it seems that the default slapt-get fetching of them relies
on the timestamp, and that it isn't working with Smart's fetch ?

--anders




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