On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Benoit des Ligneris wrote:
> What I would like is a "very smart OPD" : just ask for the modification
> time and size of the oscar_repositories.xml files. If it is the same,
> don't download it and, if the file is not accessible, use your old file.
I tried to subtly hint at this in my previous message: if you'd go read
the opd source, you'd see that this is exactly what it already does. :-)
> In this context, you don't loose dynamism and you do not depend on the
> remote avalaibility of the oscar_repositories.xml. All in all, I think
> it only removes a dependency and doesn't diminish the dynamism of the
> repositories.
You still have to download the file once.
If you include a cached repository file in the OSCAR distro, the installed
version will have a timestamp of whenever you ran "make install", not the
timestamp when the distro was made (and the file was cached). Therefore,
opd will think that it has a recent copy and not try to download it again.
Hence, the first time the user installs OSCAR and opd launches, it is
guaranteed to be the local copy (and possibly out of date).
If you want to hack, go right ahead. Here's what needs to be done (off
the top of my head; there may be more):
a) make dist: include the most current copy of the repositories file
b) make install: install the cached file with the original timestamp
My $0.02 is that this is spending way too much effort for a rare problem,
which is why I won't implement it. :-)
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