[pacman-dev] http date handing

[VMiklos]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:27:44AM -0500, Dale Blount <dale at archlinux.org> wrote:
> I know this probably doesn't belong here (since I can't offer a patch),
> but you might know of a better solution than I.  It's probably not even
> important enough to fix (unless the change can be copied to pacman3
> also).

from the TODO:
"- add HTTP support for .lastupdate files"

so this feature is available only for ftp, not for http or file

udv / greetings,
VMiklos

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