Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 23:00:36 -0400 From: Constantine <cnst@rbcmail.ru> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: /stand/sysinstall: Why do we always have to download /INDEX for any installation changes? Message-ID: <3F4ACD54.5070403@rbcmail.ru>
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Hello, all! Why do we always have to download .../packages/INDEX file, when we want to browse the package list from /stand/sysinstall? The size of the file is 3 megabytes, and it takes about a minute to download on my 512K DSL line (I bet it takes forever for those, who have dial-up :-) ). Why not keep a local-copy of this file and compare md5sum for the one on the ftp-server? AFAIK, we do not change the INDEX file within one release, so we do not even need to compare md5sum! Or keeping a gzipped version of that file would speed up the download in about 10 times, which is something one might consider... Cheers, Constantine.
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