apt-get and gzipped Package list files
Hi,
Our "companys" proxy server is pain in the ass.. all web access _must_ go
thru it and on some really mind boglingly stupid reason it decompresses
Gzipped files as default. And suprise suprise the maintaince crew is
unwilling to change this behaviour.
Because of this behaviour apt-get cant receive the Package files
correctly since it pipes files thru gzip which returns an error because
its no longer gzipped file since the proxy decompressed it allready.
After reading several how-tos etc and man pages I still cant find any
suitable configuration parameter for changing this behaviour of apt-get so
that it would not pipe the data thru gzip.
Has anyone _any_ idea howto get around this? I could allways make
redirected sockets to one of our unix servers and thru there bypass the
proxy but its ugly,ugly,ugly way to achieve this. If there is no ready
"wrapper" or patched apt-get or that mystical config parameter which im
not able to find anywhere I probably need to sacrifice few minutes for
coding a patch + some CPU time for gcc -)
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