caching problem with wget used by MacPorts infrastructure

Marko Käning MK-MacPorts at techno.ms
Wed May 18 15:12:54 PDT 2011


> making stealth updates is a bad idea to begin with.
Yep, you are right. :-(

> So you might just have to accept that there will be a delay before the
> whole CDN picks up the updated file (exact length depending on their
> configured default expiry time). Different results when you downloaded
Those times must be HUGE, because even days after my download trials they were still with the old version...

> with a browser and then with wget could possibly just be a result of
> hitting different front-end servers, one of which had the old file
> cached and one of which didn't.
Yep, that's it.

Anyway, I guess I just have to avoid stealth updates.
Thanks again.


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