Re: understanding apt-proxy

[Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com>]

Chris Halls wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:17:22PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
>  
>
> > I had read all of these except the import but I had done the import. 
> > Often enough I find Linux documentations skips over or assumes 
> > understanding that I don't have yet.  Not that I don't appreciate all 
> > that has been done.
> >    
> I would happily accept worked-over documentation for anything I maintain -
> knowing a program inside-out does not help in writing documentation - I
> don't always see the problems you do.
I would be glad to help if I end up getting a little better 
understanding.  I will read more of  the apt-proxy script.

> > In this case I may be closer than I think.  For security I have:
> >
> > add_backend /security/                                  \
> >       $APT_PROXY_CACHE/security/       \
> >       security.debian.org::debian-security/     \
> >       non-us.debian.org::debian-security/  
> >
> > and from the client I get:
> >
> > Failed to fetch 
> > http://joy:9999/security.debian.org/dists/testing/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages  
> > 404 is not serviced by this server
> >    
> The backend name and address you give in sources.list need to match.
>
> In this case, you specified 'security' as backend name and
> 'security.debian.org' in sources.list. 
>
> I quote from the apt-proxy.conf that
> I suggested you look at:
I have many times.  I believe I have the latest version since I upgrade 
often.  I finally see your helixcode example as saying what you have 
said above.

> # Debian security
> #deb http://APTPROXY:9999/security stable/updates main contrib non-free
>
> (well, you need to change 'stable' to 'testing' and set your apt-proxy
> host name, but otherwise it is correct for you.)
>  
Much better.   Those errors are gone now.

I'll see if I can contribute to the documentation.  There is still a lot 
missing from my networking knowledge.

Thanks,

Paul

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