Bug#222639: apt: Cache-Limit influences Release processing, without notice on failure

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

severity 222639 normal
tags 222639 moreinfo
thanks

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 07:24:28PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote:

> With the attached sources.list and apt.conf (sorry, many internal

There were no attachments.

> mirrors), the (manually added to the local mirror) Release file from
> backports.org Release file gets ignored, as shown:
> 
> # apt-cache policy |grep -A2 mozilla
>  500 http://debian-mirror.alcove-fr woody/mozilla Packages
>      origin debian-mirror.alcove-fr
> Pinned Packages:
> 
> 
> If the Cache-Limit is raised from 10M to 100M, and the cache rebuilt,
> then:

Did you get an error when the cache was built before you charged
Cache-Limit?  If not, why did you change it?  The default should be
sufficient.

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 - mdz