[Apt-proxy-users] .conf setting for partial mirror

[Thomas C. <sys...@bl...>]

I'm not sure if this list is still up, but I though I would give it a shot.

I am trying to set up a partial Debian archive mirror for my network using
apt-proxy.  Unfortunately, I don=B9t have 40+ Gb to use, so I would like to
only mirror i386 testing (contrib., main, non-free, non-us, no source).

After reading the man pages and the README file, my impression is that this
is done in the add_backend section of apt-proxy.conf, but I'm a little fuzz=
y
on the details.

In looking through the Debian archive by hand, I can see that under the
stable 'potato' directories, there are real .deb packages, but under testin=
g
and unstable, there is only a package list.  Do I aim apt-proxy at the list
files?  Do I need to pick each package out of the stable dir?

I would really appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction,
thanks,

-Tom