[bug-notifications] [pkgutil 0004053]: RFE: Option to force non-cached downloads of catalog files

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http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4053 
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Reported By:                skayser
Assigned To:                bonivart
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Project:                    pkgutil
Issue ID:                   4053
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            N/A
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             2009-11-23 13:09 CET
Last Modified:              2009-11-23 13:52 CET
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Summary:                    RFE: Option to force non-cached downloads of catalog
files
Description: 
We are sitting behind a proxy which sometimes doesn't hand out the current
testing catalog (maybe it's just me triggering -U too often when i can't
wait for the testing catalog to be rebuild). Anyway, when i run into this
issue, I usually call wget --no-cache once to download the current catalog
and then continue using pkgutil.

Could an option be added to pkgutil to have _catalog_ downloads run with
--no-cache? As a comparison, Patch Check Advanced (pca) seems to have seen
a similar "stale proxy files" issue and features a --nocache command line
argument / configuration file option
(http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/usage.html) to force fresh
downloads of the patchdiag.xref file.
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 (0007025) bonivart (manager) - 2009-11-23 13:52
 http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4053#c7025 
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It's been on my todo list for a while since I tend to do the same as you do
and it's annoying since I do want caching of the packages. Maybe your
--param feature request would have helped here? ;-)

Would it hurt in any way if I forced --no-cache on all catalog fetches? I
think the option has changed over time in wget, maybe it used to be -N or
something if I remember correctly. Safest may be to put in an option in
pkgutil.conf for separate wget options for catalog fetches.