Re: approx in debian 12

["Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org>]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 10:23:45PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 22:18:09 -0700
> Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:
>
> > One thing I didn't like is that approx appears to require fiddling
> > with sources.list. apt-cacher-ng simply requires setting a proxy
> > value, in its own file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d. E.g.:
> >
> > root@hawk:/etc/apt/apt.conf.d# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02proxy
> > Acquire::http::Proxy "http://aptcacher.localdomain:3142";;
> > root@hawk:/etc/apt/apt.conf.d#
>
> Or, even simpler, install auto-apt-proxy on your clients and let them
> find your proxy. The package description says it works for approx. And
> that worked!
>
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Thanks for checking, Charles.  My schedule does not allow me to work
on it until tomorrow evening.  However, can auto-apt-proxy be
specified during mirror selection with a netinstall?  That is my
primary need and use for approx.

A friend gave me his old Windows XP machine.  I installed on it Debian
12 with XFCE desktop.  I intend to use it to replace an old machine on
which is installed Debian 9, running a mail server (getmail) and an
approx server.

RLH