From ff574e76beb97c101924c2d4746b5a2dbb862f19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:12:36 +0100 Subject: add APT::FTPArchive::AlwaysStat to disable the too aggressive caching if versions are build multiply times (not recommend) Patch by Christoph Goehre, thanks! (Closes: #463260) --- doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml') diff --git a/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml b/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml index d47df957a..e2eab0fb2 100644 --- a/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml +++ b/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml @@ -544,6 +544,18 @@ for i in Sections do Configuration Item: APT::FTPArchive::ReadOnlyDB. + + + &apt-ftparchive; caches as much as possible of metadata in it is cachedb. If packages + are recompiled and/or republished with the same version again, this will lead to problems + as the now outdated cached metadata like size and checksums will be used. With this option + enabled this will no longer happen as it will be checked if the file was changed. + Note that this option is set to "false" by default as it is not recommend + to upload multiply versions/builds of a package with the same versionnumber, so in theory + nobody will have these problems and therefore all these extra checks are useless. + + + This configuration option defaults to "true" and should only be set to -- cgit v1.2.3