On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 03:36 +0200, Tobias Hertkorn wrote: > One bad thing (amongs others) that happens if you use squid - first of all > you have to make your clients use the proxy settings Set it up in reverse proxy mode (way easier in 3.0) and you don't use proxy settings - you use it as your repository. AIUI apt-proxy, you use it in much the same way. > AND way more imortant - > a request for http://yourserver/testing/..../apache....deb will not create a > hit if requested as http://yourserver/sid/..../apache...deb . Furthermore > requests to similar mirrors will not create cache hits. So everybody has to > use the same sources list, down to the same requests by symlinks. A fairly simple redirector will accomodate this, but even if not done, the pool is common - and the bulk of sid & testing updates is in the pool. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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