package apt-cacher tags 822648 + pending thanks On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 04:14:02AM -0400, Daniel Richard G. wrote: > On Fri, 2016 May 6 08:40+0100, Mark Hindley wrote: > > > > The SHA files appears to be Ubuntu specific. For both distros, I am > > struggling to find decent documentation about DEP-11. Can you point me > > to where the Ubuntu SHA files are specified? > > It appears the by-hash files are actually not a DEP-11/Appstream thing, > but a new feature of apt: Acquire-By-Hash. > > See the section "indices acquisition via hashsums (by-hash)" at > > https://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat > > for the spec.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. Having a quick read through my first impression is that this is a nightmare for caching! Or at least preventing the cache from growing continually... But it is not related to DEP-11/Appstream, so I will queue the fixes for that for the next upload. Mark
