gpk-application (and probably yum) updates

[cornel panceac]

2009/6/16 cornel panceac <cpanceac at gmail.com>

>
> 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 :)
>

and the error was:

<a mirror> : [Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink for updates
Trying other mirror.


>
>> --
>> Linux counter #213090
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Linux counter #213090
>



-- 
Linux counter #213090
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/attachments/20090616/610bd683/attachment.htm>