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
> > 
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