Re: apt-proxy on FreeBSD (probably off-topic)

To: Jason Thomas <jason@topic.com.au>
Cc: mmaciaszek@gmx.net, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: apt-proxy on FreeBSD (probably off-topic)
From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 17:17:08 +1000
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Hi Jason,

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 17:06:33 +1000 Jason Thomas <jason@topic.com.au> wrote:
>
> what I meant was  request for something like
> /debian/dists/sid/main/source/Release
> 
> these files never seem to exist.

Aahh, I understand.  Yes they never seem to exist, but why does apt-get ask for them?  Apt-proxy
does cache their non-existant status for a while.

What we really miss is uncompressed Sources files ... AND "gzip --rsyncable" ...

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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