Re: apt-cacher-ng related program and package suggestion
On Thu 15 Jun 2017 at 10:16:45 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 09:57:50PM +0200, tuxderlinuxfuchs77@gmail.com wrote:
> > The shown way is not very comfortable.
> >
> > 1. it is annoying having to remember IP addresses
> > 2. sed command is error prone (consider typos, etc.)
> > 3. copying around backup files is time consuming having to type in all
> > the paths
> > 4. typing in sed command or searching it in bash history for re-using is
> > time consuming, too.
> >
>
> Simple workaround for now:
>
> /etc/apt/sources.list:
> ----
> deb http://site1.ip.address/debian jessie-backports main
> #deb http://site2.ip.address/debian jessie-backports main
> ----
>
> Now just change the comment from one to the other, run apt-get
> update and go.
>
> Second workaround, if you have lots of entries to be switched:
> create two sources.list files, named home.list and uni.list.
>
> When you move from place to place, copy the appropriate one
> in to /etc/apt/sources.list and run apt-get update.
Another workaround is to use bash functions, say upgrade-work and
upgrade-home, to wrap some rather long command lines like:
apt-get -o Acquire::http::Proxy="http://192.168.1.19:3142/"; update && apt-get -d -o Acquire::http::Proxy="http://192.168.1.19:3142/"; upgrade ; apt-get upgrade
Now you may well ask why I use such a crazy command line.
Answer, I run apt-cacher-ng on my wheezy server, BUT
proxying the actual upgrade step fails because wheezy can't
handle apt-listbugs, so I do that step directly. The long
command line saves messing with apt.conf or sources.list.
Cheers,
David.
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