On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 06:23:33PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 08:57:37AM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote:
> > I have just taken over maintaining apt-cacher.
> > 
> > This is obviously a major problem that was not envisaged by the
> > design of apt-cacher.
> > 
> > I am wondering if we can get round it by running separate apt-cacher
> > daemons on different ports with different caches using different
> > upstream for ubuntu and debian.
> 
> I do this.  It avoids the immediate problem of ACCIDENTAL name clashes
> between Ubuntu and Debian, but does not prevent a malicious user from
> inserting their own packages into apt-cacher's cache.

Surely that is always a possible problem? Not really related to
ubuntu/debian name clashes.

Mark



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