On Monday, 26 March 2018 11:16:14 IDT Tom Hughes wrote: > On 26/03/18 09:06, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > > Debian has APT. APT uses one copy of metadata. Be wise. Like Debian. > > Do we know how? Do they just not allow non-root users to get up > to date data, or do they do something cleverer? With APT, cache update and using the cache are orthogonal operations: * Running "apt-get update" is privileged and update the cache. * There's obviously an optional service to run "apt-get update" periodically if root prefer this mechanism. * Doing just query (e.g: apt list ...) always use latest cache data. * So query by root or any user are the same -- no privileged and work on the cache (which may/may-not be updated). KISS, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 May the Source be with you! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
