Re: Idea for structure of Apt-Get
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 09:55:01PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> The ISps with caching proxies are usualy the ones that always have
> problems with apt-get and basicaly any other http/ftp app, esspecialy
> ftp. They start to cache stuff they aren't supposed to cache or don't
> notice file changes.
>
> Just think what happens if you get todays Release file and yesterdays
> Packages file. Apt currnetly just fails to find packages but with 0.6
> it will detect network intrusion and loudly scream as checksums don't
> match.
Transparent proxies that don't do a good job rechecking documents are
broken. If apt knows it is using a proxy it can request a check for
updates on importante files (and does so). It works great. Nothing
wrong with apt or proxies, only with transparent proxies that aren't
that transparent.
Len Sorensen
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