Re: download strategy, was Re: apt, yum, up2date, smartpm, ... ?
Les Mikesell <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 00:00, William Stearns wrote:
> >> Good point; I hadn't thought of that. You'd have to put in a
> >> restricted list of mirrors to have this help at all, and cut down to 1
> >> mirror to get full use of the cache.
> >
> > Again, can it do the right thing automatically? It seems odd
> > that the repository setup goes out of its way to defeat
> > normal caching.
>
> You make it sound intentional.
Is it too much to ask for someone designing an internet delivery
mechanism to understand existing practices and infrastructure?
Squid has been around a long time and is in place where it needs
to be. It doesn't make sense for every application to have its
own quirky way to fix a solved problem. Look, for example at what
nslookup returns for www.ibm.com.
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Les Mikesell
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