Bug#817803: please specify metadata-by-hash

2016-03-22 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:14:57PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > - https://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat#Acquire-By-Hash > > I think this should say that clients must fall back to the canonical > locations if by-hash fails, not that they may fall back. Mirrors > (particularly partial ones)

Bug#817803: please specify metadata-by-hash

2016-03-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:33:13PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > ==> https://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat Thanks for writing this. A couple of comments: > - https://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat#Acquire-By-Hash I think this should say that clients must fall back to the canonical

Bug#817931: Bug#817803: please specify metadata-by-hash

2016-03-22 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hi, (never tried sending a mail to two bugs while closing one of them… lets see how that goes – and sorry already for all the breakage caused) On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 03:33:12PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > Please provide a spec of what apt expects from the archive so our friendly > ftpteam

Bug#817803: please specify metadata-by-hash

2016-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 03:33:12PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > apt supports content-addressed metadata files (Translations, Packages, > Sources, ..). > > With this feature, we can have significantly more robust Debian mirrors. > > Please provide a spec of what apt expects from the archive

Bug#817803: please specify metadata-by-hash

2016-03-10 Thread Peter Palfrader
Package: apt Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-...@lists.debian.org Hi, apt supports content-addressed metadata files (Translations, Packages, Sources, ..). With this feature, we can have significantly more robust Debian mirrors. Please provide a spec of what apt expects from the