On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 08:04:46PM -0500, Omari Norman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 08:45:49AM +0000, Mark Hindley wrote: > > Before you do that could you run > > > > bzcat > > /var/cache/apt-cacher/packages/security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_contrib_binary-i386_Packages.bz2 > > > > I would live to know where this file has come from and make sure there > > isn't a bug hiding here somewhere. > > Sure, I'll attach that. Thanks for all your help. --Omari >
Thanks I understand this now -- it is connected the the recent lenny release and stable becoming oldstable. The file you have cached from http://localhost:3142/security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 was from stable (etch, Last-Modified: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:55:18 GMT). After lenny release this became oldstable, but last modified time for this same index file in the new stable (lenny) is Last-Modified: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 07:20:40 GMT so apt-cacher keeps the more recent (but wrong!) one. I can't really see this as a bug in apt-cacher, but I will talk to d.s.o to see if there is a way round this. I had tried to us ETags as a validator in apt-cacher, but had problems with the round robin DNS on some servers. See bug #454966. It is currently disabled, but you can enable it by setting use_etags=1 in the confg file. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
