[plug] APT proxy/gateway/cache

[Matt Kemner]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, quoth Tim White:

> I have got apt-proxy but can't seem to get it to work. I think that this
> would be the solution but haven't looked at others yet.

I would persist with apt-proxy if I were you. Once set up it works well. I
use it to proxy the security updates - I did use it to proxy everything,
until I set up a complete (120GB) Debian mirror.

What problems have you got with it?

Relevant bits from my apt-proxy.conf are:

#################################################################
APT_PROXY_CACHE=/share/Debian-Cache

add_backend /security/                                  \
        $APT_PROXY_CACHE/security/                      \
        ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security/
#################################################################

and in my sources.list on various machines:

deb http://waixcolo.linuxit.com.au:9999/security woody/updates main contrib non-free

Regards,

 - Matt