RE: Installing Packages with Proxy

[Peter Chen <petechen netilla com>]

On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 15:11, Seth Vidal wrote:
> a program is run on the web server/repository of files. this program 
> copies the headers from the rpms and stores them individually. Then the 
> client programs get the headers for all the rpms. 
> It then uses the downloaded headers to determine what things are 
> upgraded/obsoleted etc. Then it creates a transactiondict that tells it 
> what rpms it will need. it downloads them and install them.

Perhaps I am catching this thread late.  What is the advantage of having
the full header over simply epoch, name, version, release tags (or
whatever tags that the version comparison needs)? 

Pete