Re: Bug#81657: should support downloading Packages instead of Packages.gz

[Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>]

>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> writes:

    Jason> You can't, without writing a custom acquire bit..

    Jason> Regrettably, a general option for this is really ugly
    Jason> because the only way to make it useful is to only do it for
    Jason> Packages, and even then those might go away eventually too.

I am sorry, I am not sure I understand. Are you saying you don't want
to have something specific to Packages, as you think Package will get
obsoleted by something else? What would obsolete the Packages file?

I think a general option, eg: prefer_uncompressed_index_files, would
still be useful, even if it isn't supported in the long term.

    Jason> I'd really rather someone write a proper rproxy
    Jason> connection..

What do you mean here? A proper rproxy back end to apt-get?

rproxy has been packaged for Debian, you can just use it instead
(admittedly it seems to have a bug that prevents it from being used on
big files served with apache though).

    Jason> However, that is so amazingly non-general that I don't
    Jason> really want to have it officially supported.

Ok, thanks. I will try that when apt-get 0.4 is released.

I am not sure I see the problem though with it being "non-general".
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Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>