Bug#550444: apt: Option to send "Pragma: no-cache" when downloading package index files and binary packages
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.24
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
Is it possible to add an option to send "Pragma: no-cache" when retrieving index
files and binary packages (like wget's --no-cache), please?
One real case that this would help: my parents use an ISP that have a broken
proxy. I can keep running "aptitude update" for a long time and it will always
give me outdated files.
I need to run
"wget -O /dev/null --no-cache http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.bz2";
for example, to flush their cache.
Thank you very much!
Best regards,
Nelson
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.2.naoliv1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.9-27 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-6 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.1-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii aptitude 0.5.9rc2-1 terminal-based package manager (te
ii bzip2 1.0.5-3 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.4 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii python-apt 0.7.13.3 Python interface to libapt-pkg
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