On 10 July 2012 14:41, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Connectivity checking would be a big benefit in helping with properly > recognizing the cases where you're connected to wireless, but actually > behind a captive portal which catches and redirects requests -- > sometimes not all that gracefully. The most frequent impact of this is > a corrupted apt cache when the files don't fail to be downloaded, but > instead contain http data from the captive portal.
The corrupted apt caches are a hugely annoying bug. I have this problem at work which sadly uses captive portals. Worse, there's not a user-friendly way of fixing apt once this bug is triggered; it breaks really bad. I was thinking that it could be fixed by making apt smart enough to not accept invalid data. But if NM can fix it, then I for one for would be pretty happy. It sounds though like apt still needs to be smarter or NM needs to be smarter because there is still an up-to-5-minute window for things to break. Jeremy -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel