On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 04:04, Brian May wrote: > * If the above point wasn't bad enough by itself, the apt-proxy binary has > hard coded: > > WGET_CMD="$WGET --timestamping --no-host-directories --tries=5 > --no-directories -P $DL_DESTDIR"
Hmm, seems you are talking about version 1, which has been rewritten. The new version isn't bug free yet but it does fix several problems. It doesn't use wget. > * No thought put into the file deletion algorithm. IMHO, deleting > files based on age is wrong (consider how long stable files > last). Deleting files based on number of different copies is also > wrong (consider if you have some systems setup with stable and another > is unstable). IMHO, the only correct way is to scan the most recently > downloaded Packages and Source index files and delete files that > aren't mentioned anymore. This could be made more aggressive though if > disk space is low. There are several cleaning algorithms, controlled by different parameters. The 'only correct way' algorithm described above is controlled by the max_versions parameter (in version 1 & 2) Chris
