On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:21:08AM +1300, Mark Robinson wrote: > Simon Paillard wrote: > >reassign 402400 mirrors > > > >Did you see such an error recently ? [..] > The problem is that ISP's 'transparent' caches get out of sync and > that the wget/dpkg/apt chain fails to use the 'no-cache' http option > to force the cache to get an updated version of the index files on > an error. [..] > It would probably be more sensible to reassign this to dpkg than it > is to assign it to mirrors.
dpkg has nothing to do with downloading files, but apt. And apt offers the no-cache option that you want to used (see #550444): Acquire::http::No-Cache "true"; -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
