Bug#199929: apt: allow apt to check "freshness" of a mirror's contents
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist
I'd like to see apt able to check a mirror to see how 'fresh'
it is. My initial concept was something like this:
Expand the "Releases" file to include a version number of some kind
Add a new kind of deb line to sources.list that says where to get
the authoritative version of Releases
"deb-chk http://central.repostory /location"
When apt-get update is run, warn about sources that have a stale
Releases version
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux joeysmith.com 2.4.20-xfs #1 Wed Jan 22 19:21:59 MST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (ignored: LC_ALL set)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-17 The GNU stdc++ library
-- no debconf information
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