gpk-application (and probably yum) updates

[cornel panceac]

2009/6/16 cornel panceac <cpanceac at 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 :)

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