Keeping old versions of packages

Wed Apr 10 13:53:08 UTC 2013


Am 10.04.2013 15:47, schrieb Bruno Wolff III:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 09:24:49 +0200,
>   Jan Zelený <jzeleny at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure this solves the initial problem - downloading new metadata every
>> 6 hours or so ...
> 
> Does the metadata really need to be downloaded or just checked to see if it is current?

normally not if proper implemented in the client to
check last creation time

FTP:  no problem to check timestamp
HTTP: HEAD-request and E-Tags

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