Re: setup 2.878 only processes one site

[David Rothenberger <daveroth@acm.org>]

Jon Turney wrote:
> On 17/05/2017 18:06, David Rothenberger wrote:
>> Jon Turney wrote:
>>> On 17/05/17 00:14, David Rothenberger wrote:
>>>> When I use the new Direct Connection option in setup 2.878, it appears
>>>> that setup only downloads the setup.xz file from one of the three sites
>>>> I have selected.
>>>
>>> Something which might give this impression is that setup will now
>>> cache setup.xz, and only download it if it has changed.
>>
>> I think you nailed it. I tried again this morning and the first time I
>> ran setup, it did contact our local site, but it did not on subsequent
>> runs (even to see if the file has changed). I then modified our web
> 
> This would be very bad, if true.  Are you sure that we aren't contacting 
> the server at all? (such requests might not be logged in some 
> configurations)

Yes, I'm sure. I verified our web server logs requests with the 
If-Modified-Since header. Also, I used wireshark to confirm there was no 
request at all to our web server.

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