[Apt-proxy-users] Re: apt-proxy performance: dd

[Chris H. <ha...@de...>]

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 14:52, Martijn Brouwer wrote:
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old 
> ones used instead.
> 
> But it was much faster :) Do you have another suggestion?

Oh :(  No, sorry I'm not very familiar with dd.

> About the python version: I do not want to mess up my server, so for the 
> time being I will not swith to apt-proxy v2. Hopefully, sarge will be 
> stable soon...

I understand; although you could always set up a sarge chroot
environment.  It's reasonably easy, provided you have the disk space
(um, around 200Mb I would guess) available.

Assuming you use /chroot for the environment,  replace MIRROR with your
local debian mirror.  This can be an apt-proxy (use HOSTNAME:9999):

apt-get install debootstrap
mkdir /chroot
debootstrap sarge /chroot http://MIRROR/debian
cp /etc/resolv.conf /chroot/etc/resolv.conf
chroot /chroot
echo 'deb http://MIRROR/debian sarge main' > /etc/apt/sources.list
echo 'deb http://MIRROR/debian project/experimental/main/binary-$(ARCH)/' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get install apt-proxy/experimental

Hope that helps,
Chris