Bug#111879: apt-get: wishlist: random download order for better HTTP cache hit rate
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 11:01:05PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> It wouldn't be a cache so much as an active partial mirror, who's content
> is driven by client requests. So if I fetch foo.deb one day, the 'cache'
> would fetch all future versions of foo.deb and all its' dependencies
> recursively in anticipation that I would eventually upgrade foo.deb
>
> Some people might want some code to make the cache bounded in size though.
>
> > - Priming the cache before running upgrades (wget --delete-after)
>
> That only works for 1 workstation. You really need to aggregate package
> selections for all workstations and manage the cache that way.
This still sounds like a client-side app to me. Aggregate package
selections, build a list of all installed packages, cross-reference that
with an up-to-date available packages list to resolve dependencies and find
URLs, and download everything through a standard-issue caching proxy server.
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- mdz
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