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Bug#274274: should pass-through data it caches

Subject: Bug#274274: should pass-through data it caches
From: martin f krafft
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:30:58 +0200
Package: apt-cacher
Version: 0.8-4
Severity: minor

I am not exactly sure, but it seems that apt-cacher first fetches
files and then serves them. With Packages.gz at about 3 Mb these
days, this means that apt-get sits and sits and sits for ages:

5% [Waiting for headers]

until the file has been downloaded completely. I find this very
annoying as there is absolutely no feedback available.

Shouldn't apt-cacher pass through the data it downloads as it
receives it? Should it not stream rather than serve?

apt-proxy seems to do this right (despite sucking badly otherwise).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (98, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8

Versions of packages apt-cacher depends on:
ii  apache2                       2.0.51-2   Next generation, scalable, extenda
ii  apache2-mpm-worker [apache2]  2.0.51-2   High speed threaded model for Apac
ii  bzip2                         1.0.2-1    A high-quality block-sorting file 
ii  perl                          5.8.4-2.2  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  wget                          1.9.1-4    retrieves files from the web

-- no debconf information

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