Bug#212732: support redirects and interactive authentication (Progeny)
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 08:09:19AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 08:51:28AM +0100, Norbert Tretkowski wrote:
>
> > So, what about this wishlist bug? I'd really like to see redirect
> > support in apt.
>
> See http://bugs.debian.org/66434
I am about to implement geographical/topological Loadbalancing for
backports.org; DNS is of no help here, since mirrors may have various
directories, which will heavily break up apt. Also DNS can only do RR
(unless i use a patched named), whilst HTTP:302/301 can intelligently
redirect users. When one Mirror goes down, i can instantly take it off
the mirrorlist, i do not have to fight with (negative and positive)
caching somewhere in the world, either.
For DNS another Problem occurs: mirrors need to have the same state or
else fetching packages.gz and fetching packages themselves may be out of
sync. Intelligent redirection may solve that problem; furthermore when
apt caches the redirection of packages.gz it may even use the same
mirror for fetching packages, thus possibly solving spontaneous
out-of-syncs between mirrors (i.e.: redirection support is only needed
for packages.gz, not for the packages themselves).
I'd like to test and implement this kind of stuff step for step, so
introducing redirection support may already help. However, instead of
blindly backporting one patch in the BTS against woody-apt or sid-apt
and backporting the whole package i'd like to hear wether the maintainer
of the package says that the patch is okay or having the patch in sid
and then later backporting the sid/testing version.
Ill happily give the concept and code back to the debian project, when
iam satisfied with it and it works, so incase you are willing to
corporate these patches into the official debian apt package, even
the debian project might have benefits of it.
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