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Bug#199929: marked as done (apt: allow apt to check "freshness" of a mirror's contents)

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regarding apt: allow apt to check "freshness" of a mirror's contents
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--- Begin Message --- 
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

--- End Message ---
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On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:24:40PM -0600, Joey Smith wrote:
> 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
> 

Something similar (but more appropriate and safer) can be done now using
the Valid-Until field in a Release file. This means you can say that a
release file becomes invalid on a specific date and time.

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