updated README and download comments about mtimes support

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Aurelien Foret 2006-01-10 22:09:47 +00:00
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@ -268,25 +268,3 @@ Single chained list.
A minimalistic chained list implementation to store options from the A minimalistic chained list implementation to store options from the
configuration file, and targets passed to pacman on the command line. configuration file, and targets passed to pacman on the command line.
LIMITATIONS/BEHAVIOR CHANGES COMPARED TO PACMAN 2.9
===================================================
Excepted missing features still needing to be implemented, one can
notice the following limitations:
- When trying to add a package that conflicts with an already installed
one, pacman won't ask for removing the latter one prior to install the
former.
It will stop with an error code mentionning a conflict.
The library can handle only one transaction at a time, and as a consequence,
it is not easily possible to remove a conflicting package while holding
still the on-going transaction...
- If pacman is out of date, the frontend displays a warning and recommends
to give up the on-going transanction. The frontend does not allow to
upgrade pacman itself on-the-fly, and thus it should be restarted with
only "pacman" as a target.
- ...

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@ -169,16 +169,12 @@ int downloadfiles(list_t *servers, const char *localpath, list_t *files)
/* /*
* This is the real downloadfiles, used directly by sync_synctree() to check * This is the real downloadfiles, used directly by sync_synctree() to check
* modtimes on remote (ftp only) files. * modtimes on remote files.
* - if *mtime1 is non-NULL, then only download files * - if *mtime1 is non-NULL, then only download files
* if they are different than *mtime1. String should be in the form * if they are different than *mtime1. String should be in the form
* "YYYYMMDDHHMMSS" to match the form of ftplib's FtpModDate() function. * "YYYYMMDDHHMMSS" to match the form of ftplib's FtpModDate() function.
* - if *mtime2 is non-NULL, then it will be filled with the mtime * - if *mtime2 is non-NULL, then it will be filled with the mtime
* of the remote FTP file (from MDTM). * of the remote file (from MDTM FTP cmd or Last-Modified HTTP header).
*
* NOTE: the *mtime option only works for FTP repositories, and won't work
* if XferCommand is used. We only use it to check mtimes on the
* repo db files.
* *
* RETURN: 0 for successful download * RETURN: 0 for successful download
* -1 if the mtimes are identical * -1 if the mtimes are identical