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. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 <mailto:turgon mike-leone com> ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: <http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg> Foreman, roving paving crew, Dept. of Roads, Hades.
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