[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 09:55:01PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> The ISps with caching proxies are usualy the ones that always have >> problems with apt-get and basicaly any other http/ftp app, esspecialy >> ftp. They start to cache stuff they aren't supposed to cache or don't >> notice file changes. >> >> Just think what happens if you get todays Release file and yesterdays >> Packages file. Apt currnetly just fails to find packages but with 0.6 >> it will detect network intrusion and loudly scream as checksums don't >> match. > > Transparent proxies that don't do a good job rechecking documents are > broken. If apt knows it is using a proxy it can request a check for > updates on importante files (and does so). It works great. Nothing > wrong with apt or proxies, only with transparent proxies that aren't > that transparent. > > Len Sorensen
How do you tell apt that it is using a transparent proxy? How do you tell an ftp proxy to ignore proxied files? The problem with ISPs with transparent proxies is that many of them are broken. Broken to a point that you can't fix it. Even squid as ftp proxy is broken and doesn't notice file changes. How do you expect some proprietary proxy to be better? MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]