Re: apt-proxy, apt-cacher & approx

[Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil@imsc.res.in>]

Hello,

On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> P.S: I also had hard time doing a backport of the Lenny version of
> apt-cacher that depends on so many packages to be backported.

You can use "schroot" or "chroot" to run the lenny version of
software under etch (for example http://linuxgazette.net/150/kapil.html
even if I say so myself!) It takes slightly more disk space than a
backport but is often simpler than the latter.

Disclaimer: I run approx.

Kapil.
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