[Haskell-cafe] Complete package description list

[Roman Cheplyaka]

* Paterson, Ross <R.Paterson at city.ac.uk> [2011-12-06 09:09:36+0000]
> Shakthi Kannan writes:
> > So, how would I know if there is a new package in it, other than
> > having to compare it to the previous snapshot? Does the filename
> > (00-index.tar.gz) change?
> 
> The filename doesn't change.  You could use the RSS feed or the upload
> log (http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/log), both of which are
> updated at the same time as the index.

You can also try using Last-Modified or ETag information.

% curl --head http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:41:50 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.2
Last-Modified: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:49:59 GMT
ETag: "1888003-352566-4b36f39c81bc0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 3482982
Content-Type: application/x-tar
Content-Encoding: x-gzip

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