On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Matthew Hawkins wrote: > Okay, I've found out some other stuff which may help.
I think this settles it then.. > the request is getting an IMS miss. That's fair enough, you don't want > it to return stuff that isn't modified. But here's the clinker: > The IMS time apt-get is requesting is the last modified time on the > /var/state/apt/lists/ file, which is being updated each run! This is correct, however it should remain completely constant. The file is *never* written to. Are you using some odd funky filesystem/kernel? If, in fact, that time stamp on those file change, ever, then that is the problem! Can you investigate that specficially? Jason
