On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 12:53, Bryan Murdock wrote:
> In case you missed it in the subject, I'm using Redhat 9 and apt-get,
> though as far as I can tell the debian users who posted suggestions last
> time all posted stuff that did apply to redhat apt.  Anyway,  I've asked
> about this error that I'm getting when I do an apt-get update:
> 
> Failed to fetch
> http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/9/i386/base/pkglist.updates  Size
> mismatch

I've seen this error on occasion before.  It solved itself for me.  Not
sure what was going on.  A caching proxy definitely would cause
problems.  Unfortunately I don't know how to fix it.  I know that
apt-get uses wget to fetch rpms from the server.  I know also that wget
can be told to send the Pragma: no-cache header in the http request
which most sane proxy servers honor.  Not sure how to get apt to pass
this argument to wget.  (apt may use libcurl, though, so maybe this is
useless).

Michael


> 
> and received no answers.  I finally searched around on google some more
> and found something somewhat helpful.  An email discussion between a
> user and a freshrpms dude where the user was getting the same message. 
> The freshrpms dude suggested that maybe this was being caused by the
> user being behind a caching proxy.  The user insisted that he wasn't and
> so no resolution was reached.  I know that I am behind a transparent
> caching proxy here at work so I was hoping the discussion would lead to
> a solution to this problem, but it didn't.  I was wondering if any of
> you knew what to do about this transparent caching proxy problem.  It
> looks like maybe I just need to somehow make sure I'm not getting a
> cached copy of these *list.* files.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bryan
> 
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