Re: setup 2.878 only processes one site

[David Rothenberger <daveroth at acm dot org>]

Jon Turney wrote:
> On 17/05/17 00:14, David Rothenberger wrote:
> > When I use the new Direct Connection option in setup 2.878, it appears
> > that setup only downloads the setup.xz file from one of the three sites
> > I have selected.
>
> Interesting.  I don't see anything in the changes since 2.877 that would 
> have caused this.  Can you show a setup.log.full?

Attached, although I didn't see any difference in the log between using 
the new Direct Connection option and the old one.

> Something which might give this impression is that setup will now cache 
> setup.xz, and only download it if it has changed.
>
> I had no idea anyone actually used this feature of setup.  I'm somewhat 
> sceptical it's making things faster or more reliable, rather than just 
> downloading the same file 3 times... :)

I think you nailed it. I tried again this morning and the first time I 
ran setup, it did contact our local site, but it did not on subsequent 
runs (even to see if the file has changed). I then modified our web 
server to add a "Cache-Control: no-cache" header and cleared the Windows 
cache. After that, setup retrieved the setup.xz file from our server on 
every run.

For background, we host our own partial repository of locally built 
packages, so the setup.xz our server provides is not complete. It would 
be incorrect for setup to assume that the setup.xz downloaded from one 
site is identical to the ones available from the other selected sites.

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Attachment: setup.log.full
Description: Text document

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