Re: [Apt-proxy-users] endless recycling

[Micha <ear...@gm...>]

Jonathan Koren <jk...@cs...>:

> Sysadmins have their reasons for doing things like this.  It doesn't 
> matter if actually makes sense to someone else or not.

I think you're completely right. But i have nothing else to do, and so :) i like to add that to me it makes sense to put an ap cache on its own partition anyway,
with an adequate filesystem and setting it's features. And then it wouldn't be that hard to mount it atime. But making atime mandatory and suggest a seperate partition would mean no automatic install, and no matter how cool it is, it means 10 minus points in usability.
So I accept that it's just asked too much.


> By changing the mtime whenever a file is downloaded would cause that file
> to backed up even though it hasn't been changed.

Yes. I didn't think of that.

But then, who backs up an apt cache ? It's perfectly redundant, and given that you always want the last security fix, rather useless.

The only thing i do is occasionally burn the complete cache in case i need to install somewhere with small bandwith.