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From: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor?= Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#39051: nginx caching headers are broken due to epoch store
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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 12:00:16 +0100
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To: Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net>
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Hello,

Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net> ezt =C3=ADrta (id=C5=91pont: 2020. jan. 9.=
, Cs, 11:54):
>
> I=E2=80=99ve been having hard-to-debug caching issues serving up static f=
iles
> with nginx. It turns out this is due to nginx computing e-tag headers
> from file timestamps, which are all epoch in the guix store.
>
> I=E2=80=99ve fixed this on my server by applying a patch from Nix:
> https://github.com/robx/guix/commit/4b406f5bc608b3c0e18e15795d8fe61d3477a=
3e2

this is a known issue. Could you look around the tracker and merge?
>
>
>
>

Also, on the long run it would be nice to contribute a working etags
computation to nginx, that
is based on the file content hash, or something like that. Does that make s=
ense?

Best regards,
g_bor
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