Re: [OSSTEST PATCH] mg-debian-installer-update: produce deterministic output

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>]

On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 15:40 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [OSSTEST PATCH] mg-debian-installer-update: produce deterministic output"):
> > On Mon, 2015-01-12 at 12:27 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [OSSTEST PATCH] mg-debian-installer-update: produce deterministic output"):
> > > > We might like to consider something along these lines for the future:
> > > 
> > > A reasonable idea (although I wonder if it should be configurable).
> > 
> > I did consider just inserting a $CURL_OPTS which could be set to include
> > pragma no-cache from the command line. I mostly didn't because I was too
> > lazy to think about the correct shell quoting at the time...
> 
> I have pushed this.  I edited a comment which talked about
> "transparent proxies" (why is a lie) to refer to "intercepting
> proxies" (which is not).
> 
> A "transparent proxy" is (as defined in the RFCs) one which refrains
> from making certain changes to requests explicitly proxied through it.
> 
> A proxy which operates without awareness on the client side by
> intercepting TCP streams at routers is an "intercepting proxy".

Ack.