Re: Bug#63124: apt-get isn't getting new Package lists
Okay, I've found out some other stuff which may help.
The local mirror is using apt-proxy, and I've been going through the log
file from that. It seems the packages are not being returned because
the request is getting an IMS miss. That's fair enough, you don't want
it to return stuff that isn't modified. But here's the clinker:
The IMS time apt-get is requesting is the last modified time on the
/var/state/apt/lists/ file, which is being updated each run!
So apt-get hits apt-proxy at 12:55 pm and says "give me the package file
if it's been modified since 10:50 am today" (10:50 am being the last run
I scheduled with an at job since I was out of the office). apt-proxy
checks remote, checks local, says "nope, it hasn't been modified since
then" even though the actual local client Package file is now four days
old (contents-wise)
I'm going to touch all those files with a really old date and try
another run. That should work, but I'm curious now why the files are
getting touched each run.
--
Matt
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