Re: creating unique urls for binary packages

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2017-05-18 at 06:24 BST, matthew sporleder wrote:

> A few days ago we ran into a situation where some packages were
> rebuilt but not given new names, causing pkgin and friends to be upset
> about checksums of files not matching pkg_summary because
> cdn.netbsd.org had the packages cached from the previous build.
> 
> There are a few ways to resolve this, but the easiest one is to have
> the client (pkgin) append a unique identifier (like the build date) to
> the package's url:
> bash-2.05.2.13.tgz?BUILD_DATE=2017-01-07_23:23:31_+0000
> 
> when it fetched that package.
> 
> Thoughts?

This seems like a bug in the CDN?  pkgin itself should handle rebuilt
packages ok, as long as you are running a version with this commit:

  https://github.com/NetBSDfr/pkgin/commit/f21d2ec9

Are you not enabling ETags or something?

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