Re: Welcoming Brian Dessent as setup maintainer

[Robert Collins <rbcollins at cygwin dot com>]

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 21:00 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:15:37AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> >Brian Dessent wrote:
> >>that currently the local cache is keyed to the url.
> >
> >Another thing to discuss is whether that, itself, is a bug.

> It's not a bug, per se, since it was designed that way, wasn't it?

So theres one key reason for the keying to URL:

cache pollution. 3rd party sites with the same file name, different md5
- but matching their .ini file - should not be able to prevent you
getting the package you wanted. Or worse getting their (as it passes
their md5 entry) package without warning.

Cheers,
Rob

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