Why do we always have to download .../packages/INDEX file, when we want to browse the package list from /stand/sysinstall?
The size of the file is 3 megabytes, and it takes about a minute to download on my 512K DSL line (I bet it takes forever for those, who have dial-up :-) ).
Why not keep a local-copy of this file and compare md5sum for the one on the ftp-server? AFAIK, we do not change the INDEX file within one release, so we do not even need to compare md5sum!
Or keeping a gzipped version of that file would speed up the download in about 10 times, which is something one might consider...
Cheers, Constantine.
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