[Yum-devel] urlgrabber: timestamp check

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Mar 7 05:44:45 UTC 2005


> The dealio is that if you have a 1000 byte remote file and a 1000 byte
> local file, urlgrabber will try and construct a zero-length byterange
> request which then barfs.  We might, for reget only, consider
> special-casing the zero-length request to simply have it do nothing.
> Thoughts, Ryan?
> 
> I'm open to considering if_newer_than options or somesuch, but I'd
> want to sort out some of the issues:  urlgrab only?  what if there's
> no local file?, etc.

Okay,  I don't think I ever answered this. The short version of what I
want is an easy item to add to the top of:
yum/repos.Repository.getRepoXML() to see if we need to bother getting
the file.

That's really all.

-sv





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