Fedora Core 2 Update: kernel-2.6.6-1.435

[Ed K.]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Don Russell wrote:
> Ed K. said:
> {snip]
>
>> This is simpler then you show here. You can get the last update time from
>> the modified header from the
>> repository:
>>
>> $ telnet mirror.linux.duke.edu 80
>> HEAD
>> http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/headers/header.info
>> HTTP/1.1
>> ^D
>>
>> wget will return the header, but will also download the entire file...
>
> OK, you convinced me. :-)
> I'm going to work on this in my spare time... I'm just not sure how much
> of that I have right now....
>
> But, it's definately a "pet project" I'm interested in. (And I do have the
> general experience to analyze, design, implement, debug, etc)
>
> So, I just have a bit of reading to do to see HOW to do what I WANT...
> that is is I know WHAT needs doing, I'm just fuzzy on the "HOW"... and
> that's a nit, isn't it? ;-)
>
> Thanks,
> Don

HOW, WHAT, WANT......

Here is another hint. use http://www.fedoratracker.org/ to find out were the
repositories are located

ed

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