Shawn Walker wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Shawn Walker wrote:
>>> Right, but as we've discovered recently, we have users that for some
>>> reason get the correct information via wget, but not when pkg itself
>>> initiates the connection (as an example).
>>>
>>> We can only guess that it's something to do with how some of these proxy
>>> or deep packet inspection tools work for the moment.
>>>
>>> The only option I have here is to figure out some changes that Aubrey
>>> can make to the local copy of the pkg python modules to get more debug
>>> information about what exactly the client is seeing.
>>
>> Wouldn't capturing the pkg traffic with snoop or wireshark be an easier
>> first step?
>
> Probably, I've never used wireshark though, I suppose now is just as
> good of a time as any...
Ah, I'm just used to hearing that as the first thing my wife asks when a
bug is reported against the web proxy/cache product she's been working in
support & sustaining on for years.
I asked her about it, and besides suggesting to get the network trace so
you can see the headers, the other thing she asked was about the pkg
client cache - is it possible to mv/rm the cached catalog to force the
client to redownloads? Also, it is possible the client is getting
confused because it downloaded the old catalog after the last modified
date reported by http for the new catalog? (Since it appears the last
modified date reported by http is the date the build was initially
published to RE's internal staging server, and not the day it was pushed
to the external server - the Last Modified date reported by wget was
2009-03-31T02:34:59.962655 but the build wasn't pushed to pkg.os.o until
April 7, so people who updated between 3/31 & 4/7 would have downloaded
a catalog after the last modified date of the new catalog, but with older
data in.)
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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