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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:15:49PM +0200, Lubomir Blaha wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 08:51:25AM -0700, Andrew wrote:
> > wget seems to have a --cache=on/off switch which according to the
> > manual will disable server-side cache and "flush out-of-date documents
> > on proxy servers".
> 
> Yes, but maybe better way is add line
> 
> cache = off
> 
> to root's .wgetrc file and get fresh files everytime. Both ways works.
> 
>       Tritol

A good workaround for users for the time being, however, I would advise 
sorcery use the command-line switch mentioned above to override 
whatever's in the .wgetrc given the nature of the request.

If there are too many broken caches for reliability, we could implement 
our own caching using a manifest file with a list of md5sums of the big 
tarballs.  This would allow more frequent checks for tarball changes as 
well, as they wouldn't have to download the whole tarball every time to 
check for a new update.

Just some ideas to throw around...

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