I was wondering why fedora has choosen yum over apt-get

[Nils Philippsen]

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 23:48, seth vidal wrote:
> > Not as opposed to.  If there was a single small file containing
> > references to the others, fine, that's ok to update every time.  But
> > having a single file that's a collection of all the headers, no matter
> > how compressed it is, it's probably too much info to download every
> > time it changes.  It appears to me that having the headers available
> > for separate downloads would be better, even if they're *also*
> > available in a highly-compressed format for a speedy initial
> > download.  But then, mirrors lose on disk space.  One can't win, I
> > guess.  Unless...  rproxy (rsync-based web cache) anyone?
> 
> 
> The primary metadata file, for all of fc1, is 400K, compressed.
> 
> That's a doable download almost any time. The repomd.xml has an md5sum
> and a timestamp of the primary and other metadata files - so you can
> know if it has changed, fairly well.

I think I don't understand you here -- how am I supposed to compute an
MD5 sum lying on a webserver without downloading the file first?

Nils
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