[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add a fetch callback to allow front-end download support

[Dario Freddi]

On Saturday 28 March 2009 23:06:07 Dan McGee wrote:
>
> Because we don't have mtimenew- thats a pointer being passed in that
> gets filled by the method so we can use the value when we come back
> from the download callback. The fetch method has to do something (such
> as a HEAD request) first before the compare can be done.

Exactly as Dan says. In my first implementation I added a head retrival first 
to check & store the last modification time of the file I'm trying to 
download, and if the times don't match, I proceed with the download.

Uhm, I also wonder: a better implementation (but I know it's harder) would be 
having a callback that sends a list files to download (maybe pack all needed 
information in a struct and send a linked list), so that frontends could 
implement some better download methods (like apt does, for example). Then 
libalpm would have a callback to proceed with the operation. I could give a 
try and implement it, what do you think?

>
> -Dan
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