Re: [Apt-proxy-users] A sources.list to apt-proxy.conf conversion problem.

[Nigel W. <li...@ih...>]

On Thu, 08 Aug 2002 14:40, you wrote:
> I think you are confusing the rsync and http syntax.  As you have it setup,
> apt-proxy is looking for an rsync server at www.phy.olemiss.edu.  I have no
> idea about whether that host is running an rsync server, but your line in
> sources.list accessed it by http.  Even if rsync is setup on that server,
> the Packages file would likely be small and probably not worth the extra
> server overhead caused by rsync.  Just use http:
>

Yes rsync is set up on this server but I went back and retested using http 
with the lines suggested and still it did not work. (Error was 500 Bad 
Configuration). I thought rsync would be helpful mainly for subsequent 
OpenOffice downloads.


> add_backend /openoffice/                      \
>         $APT_PROXY_CACHE/openoffice/          \
>         http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/openoffice/
>
> Then add this to your sources.list files on various Debian hosts:
>
> deb http://<apt-proxy-host>:9999/openoffice/ testing main contrib
>
> (replacing <apt-proxy-host> with the real hostname of course).

So anyone who knows a working pair of lines for sources.list and 
apt-proxy.conf to retrieve the OpenOffice debs from www.phy.olemiss.edu. I 
would be very pleased to see them.

Thanks 
Nigel