I have filed bug 1709603 to track my request of having "apt update"
called automatically, as really it's independent of Scott's request for
--is-necessary here.
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> IMHO, in the use case for "apt install", "apt update" should be
considered an implementation detail and the user shouldn't need to call
it directly. "apt install" should just do the right thing.
Here's basically the same opinion with some commentary from others:
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 01:32:00PM -, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> I think automatic updating on old caches is not really the best idea,
> because it will always happen when you expect it the least. Or maybe you
> do in fact want the old one.
>From the perspective of users, I absolutely
I think automatic updating on old caches is not really the best idea,
because it will always happen when you expect it the least. Or maybe you
do in fact want the old one.
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IMHO, in the use case for "apt install", "apt update" should be
considered an implementation detail and the user shouldn't need to call
it directly. "apt install" should just do the right thing. The same
applies to "apt-cache search", etc. It's seems quite tedious and
unnecessary to have to run
$ echo now: $(TZ=GMT date); wget -S -q
http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/vivid/Release -O /dev/null
now: Fri Apr 3 14:37:31 GMT 2015
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 14:37:31 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
Last-Modified: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 14:28:00 GMT
ETag:
Just realized, that ideally 'apt-get update' would respect headers that were
put in place by the source.
$ wget -S -q http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/vivid/Release -O
/dev/null
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:32:55 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
Last-Modified:
ähm, did you realize that Expires is the exact time of your request
(compare Date) in your example? (See also the HTTP1.1 spec which will
tell you that 'Expires' doesn't really mean what you think it does, so
that the value it has is actually 'okay').
APT is using If-Modified-Since in its
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