[pacman-dev] http date handing

[Aurelien Foret]

VMiklos 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
> 

Indeed, but I've got a patch in the pipe (targeted at the pacman library 
code).
I miss this feature quite much, so I think I'll commit it after a few 
more tests.

By the way, there's a FR logged in our bugtracker (see 
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/2583).
So, the need to backport it to pacman 2.9.x should be discussed.
To say it all, I'm quite inclined to.
--
Aurelien