Re: apt-get may accept inconsistent data

[Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>]

In article <[🔎] 87abj5k6yi.fsf@frosties.localdomain> you wrote:
> Apt-get should not even send an "If-Modified" query imho. After
> fetching the Release file is already knows with near certainty if the
> local file is current or not. It should check the Checksums of the
> local file and then either keep it or fetch it. Asking
> If-Modified-Since can only lead to triggering a bug like the squid
> one.

It would be possible to not base the if-modifed-since on the file time but
on a date header inside the file. But in that case the mirrors will have to
react reasonable well to that.

Gruss
Bernd