Fwd: APT do not work with Squid as a proxy because of pipelining default

Hi guys,
I'm sorry to bother you here but a long thread on pipelining support is going on on debian-devel. You may wish to add some comments there. :-)

Thread start can be found here:

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg00494.html

Thanks,

L

Inizio messaggio inoltrato:

> Rinvia-Da: debian-devel_at_lists.debian.org
> Da: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere_at_hungry.com>
> Data: 17 maggio 2010 07.05.00 GMT+02.00
> A: debian-devel_at_lists.debian.org
> Oggetto: APT do not work with Squid as a proxy because of pipelining default
>
> I am bothered by <URL: http://bugs.debian.org/565555 >, and the fact
> that apt(-get,itude) do not work with Squid as a proxy. I would very
> much like to have apt work out of the box with Squid in Squeeze. To
> fix it one can either change Squid to work with pipelining the way APT
> uses, which the Squid maintainer and developers according to the BTS
> report is unlikely to implement any time soon, or change the default
> setting in apt for Aquire::http::Pipeline-Depth to zero (0). I've
> added a file like this in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ to solve it locally:
>
> Aquire::http::Pipeline-Depth 0;
>
> My question to all of you is simple. Should the APT default be
> changed or Squid be changed? Should the bug report be reassigned to
> apt or stay as a bug with Squid?
>
> Happy hacking,
> --
> Petter Reinholdtsen

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