On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:56:16PM -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: > package approx > tag 524984 confirmed > thanks > > > I've just discovered that approx does not gracefully handle HEAD > > requests, as used by d-i (via the wget --spider command). This > > makes it rather tricky to use an approx cache to back d-i > > development. > > You're right, it only supports GETs currently. > > It seems to me that if approx gets a HEAD for something not in the > cache, it will have to download it from the remote repository just so > it can report that it exists (or confirm that it doesn't). Is that > the desired behavior?
I would imagine it would only have to do a HEAD request upstream, not do a full download. I could live with those HEADs not being cached. The specific use case of d-i is it just HEADs the Release file to confirm that the repo URL is something that smells roughly like a Debian package repo; in normal operation, the Release file will get retrieved fully (by another part of the d-i build process) shortly thereafter, along with all the packages. A brief thinking session leads me to think that a 404 response to a HEAD when the file isn't in the cache and we're in offline mode is the least worst option. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
