On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Laszlo, Robert wrote: > I have 0.3.6, haven't tried the 'unstable' version (0.3.9, I believe) > Would you please add a feature of caching packkages.gz files' timestamps to > apt? > I often change sources.list. Maybe it's just my brain-damage, but it would be > nice not to d/l the otherwise not changed packages.gz files.
It does cache timestamps, but it has no way of knowing if a new site had the same package files as the old one, often it is switching because of outofdateness or corruption. Jason
