Refresh expired DHT hashes concurrently instead of sequentially.

[quix0rs-apt-p2p.git] / TODO

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+Some last few things to do before release.
+
+- Handle/investigate the HTTP client pipeline errors
+- remove files from the peer's download cache
+- update the modtime of files downloaded from peers
+  - also set the Last-Modified header for the return to Apt
+
+Consider what happens when multiple requests for a file are received.
+
+When another request comes in for a file already being downloaded,
+the new request should wait for the old one to finish. This should
+also be done for multiple requests for peer downloads of files with
+the same hash.
+
+
 Packages.diff files need to be considered.
 
 The Packages.diff/Index files contain hashes of Packages.diff/rred.gz 
@@ -22,6 +37,14 @@ and not the headers, and also misses the requests for downloads sent to
 other peers.
 
 
+Rehash changed files instead of removing them.
+
+When the modification time of a file changes but the size does not,
+the file could be rehased to verify it is the same instead of
+automatically removing it. The DB would have to be modified to return
+deferred's for a lot of its functions.
+
+
 Consider storing deltas of packages.
 
 Instead of downloading full package files when a previous version of