Control: severity -1 normal (lowered severity since it sounds like this issue may be unique to my system for some reason) On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 10:44:02 +0200 =?UTF-8?Q?St=C3=A9phane_Glondu?= <glondu@debian.org> wrote: > 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 when some part of metadata has gone out of date however.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? ext4, mounted with relatime enabled (which is what the Trixie netinstaller gave me by default). > > 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)? I have not, since 60 minutes of buffer isn't a problem for me. However, I will try setting it to something smaller and see what happens. (I might not be back with results all that quickly, but I should be able to report back how things work after a couple weeks or so. > > Cheers, > > -- > Stéphane > > >
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