Package: apt-cacher
Version: 0.8.6
Severity: wishlist
It would be useful if apt-cacher could be taught that
security.debian.org updates 'asynchronously' to other
mirrors. Either by setting a lower expiry threshold or simply
by not caching the packages list at all (.deb files would still
be cached).
The reason is that apt-cacher uses an 8 hour timeout by default,
this means that any security updates which are released do not
show up until this timeout has expired and the new list is
downloaded.
I can work around the problem by:
- manually deleting the cached lists from the apt-cacher server
(ick!)
- using a sources.list which bypasses the cache. This is a pain
for large security updates on multiple machines since the .deb
is not cached.
- turning down the global expire value. This is non-optimal
for all the non-security sources which only update once per
day or so.
But I think it would be nice it apt-cacher could handle the situation
itself.
Thanks,
Ian.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (900, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.11-1
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages apt-cacher depends on:
ii apache 1.3.33-6 versatile, high-performance HTTP s
ii bzip2 1.0.2-7 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii perl 5.8.4-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii wget 1.9.1-12 retrieves files from the web
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