On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:22:13PM +0200, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > On Thursday 10 July 2008, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > > Could you please add a cron entry for resynchronizing the > > > packages contents from their sources every days?
AOL on the feature request. > But considering that even the unstable contents files are only > created every 5 days, a weekly cron job should be enough. And a few > HEAD requests per week won't hurt the mirrors. ACK: weekly sounds the good thing todo. > But I think the cron job should be off by default. Why so? The Debian "style" is that if you install a package, then the package should work by default, no cronjob will become "not working" in the long run. So I'd prefer an "on by default", switchable to off by /etc/default/whatever. An alternative solution would be to add an APT update hook which also updates apt-file database upon "apt-get update". (Yes: that would make mandatory does not download unchanged Contents.) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie sempre uno zaino ...........| ..: |.... Je dis tu à tous ceux que j'aime -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
