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[João Luís Marques Pinto <joao.pinto@xxxxxxxxxx>]

João Luís Marques Pinto wrote:
> When a user clicks on APT url he may have the repositories cached info 
> update, this would make it install an older version than the one 
> displayed on the web page, to enture the user will install the latest 
> version we are passing a special flag to the apt-url that forces it to 
> do an APT cache update before requesting the package install, to 
> enforce this we also need an option added to the users apt config: 
> Acquire::Mirror::RefreshInterval    "0"; , by default APT does not 
> refresh the info for a default defined interval (don't have the valuer 
> right now).
Please ignore the "Acquire::Mirror::RefreshInterval" config change, this 
interval is specific to the mirror:// method that we used for playdeb, 
with Jaunty we will use a regular http method which will result in an 
http redirect to an archive mirror, but we will still be forcing all 
repositories to be checked for updates when clicking on the apt-urls .

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