[Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] [FEATURE-REQUEST] Caching mechanisme for patch-logs

[Miles Bader]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 10:01:59AM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> >How about an http proxy that caches everything _except_ .listfing files...
> 
> - The local settings should determine the caching parameters
> - Most files are guaranteed to never be deleted-- being Arch-specific 
> allows a cache to take advantage of that knowledge.
> - That doesn't cover sftp, ftp, or network filesystem access.

True, true, but the `requires no hacking'[1] part seems very attractive while
waiting for someone to write a tla real VFS[2] caching layer or something...

[1] Tho from earlier problem I had with http archives, I guess tla doesn't
    actually pass the right no-cache thing for .listing files...

[2] I forget what this is called in hackerlab, but I mean the tla virtual
    filesystem thingie.

Personally my biggest use of remote archives is actually sftp so it won't
help me all that much... hmmm 

-Miles
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