[Yum] Comments and Suggestions

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

Am Freitag, 28. Oktober 2005 10:10 schrieb C.Lee Taylor:
> Greetings ...
>
>  > I think implementing the last-modified check in the repomd.xml
>  > grab might be the lightest-weight way. If we have a way of
>  > checking the last modified timestamp we might be able to use that
>  > to make sure yum ignores out-of-date mirrors.
>  >
>  >thoughts?
>
> 	As a layman, that sounds like a good plan, but wonder if that is
> possible.  I don't know if you have check the timestamp of files from
> a web server ... I'm sure you can, but how would one know that is the
> correct time, taking into account things like time zones and so on.

Timestamp checking gets really funny, when it comes to ftp (especially, 
when items get more than one year old :-( ).

Pete