approx (was Re: apt-proxy)
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 08:40:04AM +0100, Brian May wrote:
> Is a back port available for sarge? If not, how feasible would it be
> to create on? Does it depend on anything not in sarge?
Approx needs the current version of libocamlnet-ocaml-dev,
but otherwise should compile and work OK in sarge.
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 08:40:04AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> Update your package description please. Current apt-cacher does not
> require Apache.
Yes, I noticed that when I saw the recent thread about apt-cacher's
path_map option. It should be fixed in the next upload.
As far as I can see, the primary difference is that approx supports
FTP to remote repositories (which apt-cacher is likely to do too in
the future), and is compiled to native code (which may not matter in
practice). A secondary difference is that approx doesn't keep any
meta information (HTTP headers) in the cache, just the downloaded
files themselves.
Apt-cacher has more flexibility in name mapping, and can integrate (or
not) with an existing webserver. Is that a fair comparison?
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Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
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