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Re: some proposed changes/requirements for apt



On Thu, 16 May 2002, jason andrade wrote:

> Tbyte, yes.  /whack self for not remember TB vs Tb.  Obviously not all of
> that is debian, but it's a significant percentage now.

Welp, that is a pretty big number then. Lots of ram and a fast disk array
I hope.

> > Nope. Only http get. One big warning though, if you are using a web server
> > other than apache it may be slightly buggy and people using it with APT
> > may get upset.  In the past servers have had problems with HTTP/1.1
> > If-Range, pipelining and keepalive that APT makes heavy use of.
 
> hmm, i'll have to chat to the boa author about this.

Boa eh. Interesting choice. In the past it did have large numbers of
problems. I think most of them were solved - but I don't know if those
patches made it into the tree you are using.
 
> at the moment, my primary concern is still to figure out some way of
> dealing with lack of 302 support for .gz file fetches by apt.  i don't
> suppose you feel like just deciding to not have any .gz files in
> the debian archive instead (i.e just leave Packages* everywhere
> uncompressed) :-)

Er? Why?

Jason


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