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[Apt-proxy-users] sources.list and apt-proxy.conf question

[Ashley C. <ash...@mo...>]

Hello,

I have a question about how to turn lines from sources.list into apt-prox=
y=20
backends.

An example of this is the grustibus package provided by adding this to=20
/etc/apt/sources.list

=09deb http://debian.sente.pl/ ./

I've tried to add this to my apt-proxy.conf as:

#--- Grustibus repository
add_backend /grustibus/                 \      =20
    $APT_PROXY_CACHE/debian/grustibus/          \      =20
    http://grustibus.sourceforge.net/debian

I then tried changing the sources.list entry to this (mookie is the name =
of=20
apt-proxy cache machine):

=09deb http://mookie:9999/grustibus/ ./

But I had no luck. So, I tried making it:

=09deb http://mookie:9999/grustibus/ unstable main

But that did not work either. I both cases I get errors in apt-proxy.log=20
saying that Release, Packages or Packages.gz not existing on any server.

Can anyone help me? I use grustibus as an example, but I really want to u=
se=20
this to cache the Xfree86 4.2.0 previews and KDE3 packages.

Many thanks.
Ashley
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Re: [Apt-proxy-users] sources.list and apt-proxy.conf question

[Chris H. <chr...@gm...>]

Hi Ashley,

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 04:58:06PM +0100, Ashley Collins wrote:
> 	deb http://mookie:9999/grustibus/ ./

The './' is not recognised at the moment - you should use '/' instead.
> 
> But I had no luck. So, I tried making it:
> 
> 	deb http://mookie:9999/grustibus/ unstable main

That would not work because this type of deb line makes apt prepend
dists/binary-$ARCH to the URL requested.

> Can anyone help me? I use grustibus as an example, but I really want to use 
> this to cache the Xfree86 4.2.0 previews and KDE3 packages.

Here are the settings I am using for XF4.2 and KDE3:

apt-proxy.conf:
add_backend /kde3/ $APT_PROXY_CACHE/kde/ http://kde3.geniussystems.net/debian/
add_backend /xfree/ $APT_PROXY_CACHE/xfree/ http://www.A-Eskwadraat.nl/~bas/x4.2/

sources.list:
deb http://aptproxy:9999/kde3 /
deb http://aptproxy:9999/xfree sid/$(ARCH)/

HTH,
Chris