Re: [Apt-proxy-users] endless recycling

[Chris H. <ha...@de...>]

On Thursday 03 Feb 2005 02:51, Micha wrote:
> Chris Halls <ha...@de...>:
> > The mtime is not really all that useful.  There are lots of packages that
> > may be quite old, e.g. all of Woody, where it is more important to know
> > whether clients are actively downloading the package rather than the time
> > since it was created.
>
> I must admit i don't really understand that feature.
> If a package wasn't requested for a month that doesn't mean it couln't
> happen just today. And with huge amount of disk space, my decision would be
> to have woody, or have not. I wouldn't delete olf files automatically.
> And then, usually the reason for woody is stability and security.
> So i still would like to have the last security fix.
> There are quite a lot of packages that ap had to refresh, anyway.

> But i assume that you simply kmow of users who want it that way, and for
> good reasons.

Yes, there are users who don't have enough disk space to keep the whole of 
Woody around, and need the cleaning algorithms to remove packages they 
haven't downloaded for a while.

> > My guess would be a problem with the database permissions bugs that took
> > several attempts to fix.  The uploads were only to unstable, and life in
> > unstable is not guaranteed to be perfect I'm afraid.
>
> Well, in two weeks i'll see if it happens with testing too.

It's not in testing because it isn't stable enough yet.

> > I don't want to have to involve the sysadmin.  They could be not
> > available
>
> Yes, that's a good point generally. But....think of the jobs :)

Heh :)  Aren't they all busy recycling their ap databases every restart? 
*duck*

Chris