Improve reliability of apt's authentication checks
Registered by
Colin Watson
apt's authentication checks often fail if a mirror is slightly out of sync, confusing users and generating bug reports. Can we do better, perhaps in cooperation with archive improvements?
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Scott James Remnant (Canonical)
- Priority:
- High
- Drafter:
- Colin Watson
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Michael Vogt
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for hardy
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Michael Vogt
- Completed by
- Michael Vogt
Whiteboard
Code is in http://
2008-02-11: apt_0.7.9ubuntu8 implements the spec (the last bit was the update-notifier notifcation note about auth failures in the nightly cron job)
HTTP Pipelining, usually means persistent connections. Now there's http multiplexed over 1 connection with BSD licensed Google's SPDY. That may help here.
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