Well, that's a start at least. Thanks for those tidbits of info. I know some more terms to search for now.
Bryan On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 18:26, Michael Torrie wrote: > 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 > > > > > > ____________________ > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
