Re: apt with index diff support
* Michael Vogt:
> When fully supported by the archive, the diff support will be
> completely transparent, no changes on your side necessary.
When downloading the Index file, APT does not send instructions to
bypass the proxy cache:
T 212.9.189.177:51459 -> 212.9.189.169:9999 [AP]
GET /debian/dists/experimental/main/source/Sources.diff/Index HTTP/1.1..Hos
t: proxy.enyo.de:9999..Connection: keep-alive..User-Agent: Debian APT-HTTP/
1.3....GET /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 HTTP/1.1..H
ost: proxy.enyo.de:9999..Connection: keep-alive..Range: bytes=246835-..If-R
ange: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 19:18:20 GMT..User-Agent: Debian APT-HTTP/1.3....
(This is with apt 0.6.42.1exp1.)
This means that apt-proxy (and probably other proxies as well) returns
a stale copy. Sure, this could be fixed on the proxy side, but I
think to actually achieve the transparency you are aiming at, you have
to implement a workaround in APT.
(Apart from that, I can only repeated what I already wrote a couple of
weeks ago: Nice work.)
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