Downstream Apt-Proxy.....

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Thu Oct 18 01:02:38 EST 2001


On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:50:17PM +1000, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Donovan J. Edye wrote:
> > I am connected via dial up to my work LAN. On the work LAN we run apt-proxy
> > on one of our boxes so that we can update all our linux boxes from there.
> > What I would like to do is run an apt-proxy on my dialup gateway that acts
> > as a downstream proxy from the proxy running on the LAN. Ie. Dial up proxy
> > uses info stored by LAN proxy. Should LAN proxy not have the info then it
> > goes and gets it. Dial up proxy then uses that fetched info. All machines
> > behind Dial up proxy all use the dial up proxy.
> > 
> > I hope that makes sense. All pointers appreciated.
> 
> You should be able to configure apt-proxy on the dial-up to use the URL
> to apt-proxy on the LAN as the upstream source(s).  This should be
> pretty much the URL currently used by the apt sources.list files on the
> systems on the LAN.  The boxes behind the dialup set their sources.list
> to the dialup apt proxy.

No, because apt-proxy uses rsync on the upstream side, not http.  I
beleive this is somewhere high on the list of features that apt-proxy
should really have just as soon as somebody can be bothered
implementing it.

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