On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 09:01:39PM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote: > Thanks for this. Interesting. When I originally went through sorting out > the 2 server workaround for this, I considered (and rejected :)) this > approach. > > The problem with it is that apt-cacher was designed to ignore the server > path so that .debs from different servers were deemed identical. This is > useful for people who use the path_map hopping to provide server > redundancy. This approach will break that. > > I am happy to consider it again, but you need to convince me that it is > better than the multiple instance way of doing it.
Lying awake considering this more overnight, I realised this would also break checksumming which only uses the filename without a path. Also, we would need to consider to which distro we assign existing files which don't have the complete path prepended. I am not rejecting this outright, but I think it is more complicated than at first sight. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
