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Will apt-get follow 302 redirects if instructed? Clarifications I have my own DEBIAN repositories and I am in the process of evaluating if I can "virtually consolidate" all of them to one. For this, I need to understand if client side apt-get can follow 302 redirects since the "virtual repo" would use this "trick" to have apt-get fetch .deb package from different places.
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Since apt 0.7.21 (14th April 2009) it does, prior to that it didn't. (The reason was that some mirrors of Debian ran apache with the mod_spelling module, which would redirect non-existent urls to similarly spelled ones -- so asking for dpkg_1.0-2_i386.deb on an out of date mirror might get you a redirect to dpkg_1.0-1_i386.deb) See Debian bug #79002 for more details if you're interested. Added: oh, Ubuntu got it earlier: 0.7.20.2ubuntu1 (9th Feb 2009). See Ubuntu bug#18645 | |||||
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Well apt-get it more of a package handler than URL handler. The repo URLs are passed to apt-get through the distro (software sources in Ubuntu.) And since the URLs only represent directories in the end...i don't see why 302 redirects wouldn't work in apt-get. Are you creating or modifying your own repo? | |||
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