2009/6/16 cornel panceac <cpanceac(a)gmail.com>
2009/6/16 cornel panceac <cpanceac(a)gmail.com>
there was about a week without updates for my f11 systems. so i have the
> opportunity to enjoy some gpk-application (and yum) "feature". that is,
just
> to check if there are any updates, these applications have to download
> several megs of info from the repos. so i was wondering why can't the
> availability of updates be checked by comparing the date of changelogs
> (like 13 june is bigger than 12 june) . this way, to see if there are any
> updates, we would have to download just one text file for each repo,
> containing a date/time stamp. this would be of great benefit for slow
> connection users.
>
> thank you
>
> ps
> as a side note, while i was typing this email, my gpk-application is
> still "downloading repository information". considering i have a 2 MB
> connection and yum-fastestmirror, i can only suspect a(nother?) bug (like
> failure to import a key or something), so i'll kill it and try yum so that
> i'll see what's going on ....
>
ps2
well, it's gpk-update-viewer actually :)
and the error was:
<a mirror> : [Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink for updates
Trying other mirror.
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