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Re: apt-proxy on FreeBSD (probably off-topic)



would it make sense to return an instant 404 on source/Release requests.
it would speed things up.

On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 03:25:09PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:55:28 +0200 Martin Maciaszek <mmaciaszek@gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> > I'm want to run apt-proxy for all my boxes in the lan on my
> > FreeBSD box (mainly, because it has almost 40GB of free space)
> > I installed rsync and apt-proxy. After some trial&error I found
> > out that apt-proxy is dependant on gnu date. So I installed gnu
> > date but it still doesn't work. apt-get just waits till timeout.
> > I tried enabling debugging but I don't see anything in the
> > apt-proxy log.
> > 
> > Maybe somebody got it to work?
> 
> I have been working on apt-proxy recently and have a version that we have been using
> for a while with some success.  Could you try http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/apt-proxy
> and let me know if you have any better luck.  If you have GNU tail and stat installed,
> it will use them to advantage.   Note that the development environment is Linux and
> bash, so there may be some dependencies that I am unaware of - altough I am told it
> will work using ash as a shell.
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
> http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
> 
> 
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