Re: Caching Proxy for apt-get via http?
>>>>> "Harald" == Harald Dunkel <harri@synopsys.COM> writes:
Harald> Hi folks, To reduce network load and speed up upgrades I
Harald> have installed a caching proxy on one of my machines
Harald> (using Apache). But it doesn't work very well. Packages
Harald> are downloaded from http.us.debian.org, even if they
Harald> should have been taken from the cache due to an upgrade of
Harald> another machine just a few minutes ago.
Harald> The cache size is 300 MByte, so I doubt that this happens
Harald> due to lack of space. And cheating Round Robin by using an
Harald> IP address instead of 'http.us.debian.org' didn't help
Harald> either.
Have you told squid that it can use greater then 100MByte (the
default)?
(When I upgraded squid from unstable to stable, I told dpkg to install
the new config file, with the low default limit. squid was
automatically restarted, and it proceeded to remove files from my
cache. Ooops. Something you have to watch out for....)
Harald> Does anybody out there know what is the problem here?
Harald> Maybe its the failure of Apache. What are your suggestions
Harald> for running a cache for apt-get?
In my squid file, I put in
refresh_pattern \.deb$ 43200 100% 43200
refresh_pattern Release$ 720 100% 720
refresh_pattern Packages.gz$ 720 100% 720
refresh_pattern Sources.gz$ 720 100% 720
to try and eliminate this problem. Seems to work fine. So far...
--
Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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