Re: apt-proxy

[Wayne Topa <linuxone@intergate.com>]

Rodrigo Castro(rdccosmo@gmail.com) is reported to have said:
> I'm experiencing trouble to put apt-proxy to work. In the
> apt-proxy-v2.confI didn't change many things, only the server Ip (like
> 192.168.1.11) and the backends. And the client's source.list would be like
> deb http://192.168.1.11:9999/debian woody main for example. Is there anyone
> who could point a solution, if theres indeed a problem, or could show me
> what I should look for?

You have more working then I do.  I can't get 'anything' to work on
apt-proxy v1.9.35.  It doesn't seem to read the package files (after
3 30 minute downloads), and then apt-proxy-import
/var/cache/apt/archives gives me as loooong string of 
2006/11/24 16:36 EST [-] [import] smbfs_3.0.23c-4_i386.deb skipped - no suitable backend found
2006/11/24 16:36 EST [-] [apt_pkg] No Packages files available for security backend
2006/11/24 16:36 EST [-] [apt_pkg] No Packages files available for debian backend
2006/11/24 16:36 EST [-] [apt_pkg] No Packages files available for security backend
2006/11/24 16:36 EST [-] [apt_pkg] No Packages files available for debian backend
2006/11/24 16:36 EST [-] [import] python-support_0.5.5_all.deb skipped - no suitable backend found
2006/11/24 16:36 EST [-] [log] Imported 0 files

The only useful output was with 
apt-proxy-import -d /var/cache/apt/archives
                 ^^
2006/11/24 16:40 EST [-] Log opened.
2006/11/24 16:40 EST [-] debug
2006/11/24 16:40 EST [-] Traceback (most recent call last):
2006/11/24 16:40 EST [-]   File "/usr/sbin/apt-proxy-import", line 81, in ?
2006/11/24 16:40 EST [-]     apiConfig.setDebug('all:9')
2006/11/24 16:40 EST [-] TypeError: setDebug() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)

Oh, yes I checked the sourceforge mailing list.  It looks like there were, 
maybe, 5 posts this year.  Would be great 'if' it worked but.....

Wayne

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