On Thursday 10 July 2008, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > Could you please add a cron entry for resynchronizing the > > packages contents from their sources every days? > > I don't think this is a good idea. For systems running (old)stable, > the Contents lists hardly change over the lifetime of the system. > Downloading them every day for every system that has apt-file > installed seems very wasteful.
I think the files are only downloaded when they have changed. If this is not the case it should be fixed. But considering that even the unstable contents files are only created every 5 days, a weekly cron job should be enough. And a few HEAD requests per week won't hurt the mirrors. But I think the cron job should be off by default. And it needs to use -N . Cheers, Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
