Package: apt-cacher Version: 0.8.6 Severity: wishlist It would be useful if apt-cacher could be taught that security.debian.org updates 'asynchronously' to other mirrors. Either by setting a lower expiry threshold or simply by not caching the packages list at all (.deb files would still be cached).
The reason is that apt-cacher uses an 8 hour timeout by default, this means that any security updates which are released do not show up until this timeout has expired and the new list is downloaded. I can work around the problem by: - manually deleting the cached lists from the apt-cacher server (ick!) - using a sources.list which bypasses the cache. This is a pain for large security updates on multiple machines since the .deb is not cached. - turning down the global expire value. This is non-optimal for all the non-security sources which only update once per day or so. But I think it would be nice it apt-cacher could handle the situation itself. Thanks, Ian. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.11-1 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages apt-cacher depends on: ii apache 1.3.33-6 versatile, high-performance HTTP s ii bzip2 1.0.2-7 high-quality block-sorting file co ii perl 5.8.4-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii wget 1.9.1-12 retrieves files from the web _____________________________________________________________________ The message in this transmission is sent in confidence for the attention of the addressee only and should not be disclosed to any other party. Unauthorised recipients are requested to preserve this confidentiality. Please advise the sender if the addressee is not resident at the receiving end. Email to and from Arcom is automatically monitored for operational and lawful business reasons. This message has been virus scanned by MessageLabs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]