Re: upgrading more then one box by downloading the files once!

[Dave Carrigan <dave@rudedog.org>]

"Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> To create a transparent cache, you'll create a NAT rule for your
> firewall to redirect INTERNAL traffic bound for EXTERNAL sites on PORT
> 80 to the PROXY listener port.

Also, if you prefer not to use a transparent cache (I sometimes want to
bypass squid), then you can install a normal squid proxy and set an
environment variable:

  http_proxy=http://squidbox.dom.ain:3128/

Apt honors the http_proxy environment variable if it's set.

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