Personall I'd like to see _both_ solutions suggested by Stefano:
a) An cron-job (disabled per default) and configurable via /etc/defaults
(with respect to on/off, frequency of updates, perhaps retries, warnings in
case of download problems or quite, etc.)
b) Optionally (perhaps configurable via de
I second this..
I build quite a lot of Debian packages around CPAN distributions; and
dh-make-perl relies heavily on apt-file to map Perl module names into
Debian package names. Having an up-to-date apt-file list is essential to
making this magic work.
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Paul "LeoNerd" Evans
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On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:22:13PM +0200, Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> On Thursday 10 July 2008, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> > > Could you please add a cron entry for resynchronizing the
> > > packages contents from their sources every days?
AOL on the feature request.
> But considering that even t
On Thursday 10 July 2008, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> > Could you please add a cron entry for resynchronizing the
> > packages contents from their sources every days?
>
> I don't think this is a good idea. For systems running (old)stable,
> the Contents lists hardly change over the lifetime of t
Hi,
> Could you please add a cron entry for resynchronizing the packages
> contents from their sources every days?
I don't think this is a good idea. For systems running (old)stable, the
Contents lists hardly change over the lifetime of the system. Downloading
them every day for every syste
Package: apt-file
Version: 2.0.8.2
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
Could you please add a cron entry for resynchronizing the packages
contents from their sources every days?
Regards,
Arnaud Fontaine
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