Bug#1118031: Unable to detect when local and remote metadata no longer matches

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

Hi,

Le 14/10/2025 à 01:35, Aaron Rainbolt a écrit :
> [...] approx
> does not seem to store any metadata that would allow it to determine
> when some part of metadata has gone out of date however. [...]

Approx uses filesystem metadata (mtime and ctime) for that... Maybe the 
issues you face is related to your filesystem: what is it?

> The "interval" feature in approx.conf appears to be designed to prevent
> this exact scenario, and according to /etc/approx.conf it defaults to
> 60 minutes. [...]

This should address your issue.

I do use approx myself on my regular laptop (with btrfs,relatime), and I 
do not observe what you describe: there might be a slight delay (60 
minutes, I guess) before getting updates, but I always get them eventually.

Have you tried setting interval to a smaller value (like 0)?


Cheers,

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Stéphane