[Apt-proxy-users] groking apt-proxy, and "no suitable backend found"

[Bill M. <mo...@ha...>]

apt-proxy version:  1.9.28

apt-proxy has its own cache of packages.  Also,
/var/cache/apt/archives is still used on each of the client machines.
So, if the apt-proxy machine is also a client then there can be two
copies of the package -- one in /var/cache/apt/archives/ and the other
in /var/cache/apt-proxy/.  Is this correct?

Before installing apt-proxy I would run this via cron:

    apt-get -qq update && \
    apt-get -qqd dist-upgrade && \
    apt-get -qq autoclean

That keeps my Packages list up to date and pre-fetches packages, so
when I do a dist-upgrade the packages are ready to be installed.

So, with using apt-proxy I can use the same method as above to
pre-fetch packages (via cron during the night), but to avoid storing
the packages in two locations on the same machine I would use "clean"
instead of "autoclean".  Then later when I run a dist-upgrade I'll
fetch the packages from the apt-proxy cache.

Is the above correct?  Is that a typical usage for pre-fetching
packages?


Next, I can't see to import my existing .deb into the apt-proxy
cache.  This seems to happen for every package:

2005/05/16 09:32 PDT [-] [import] m4_1.4.3-1_i386.deb skipped - no suitable backend found
2005/05/16 09:32 PDT [-] [import] libxml2-dev_2.6.16-7_i386.deb skipped - no suitable backend found

I just installed apt-proxy and ran apt-get "update" on the machine
and then tried

    apt-proxy-import -i /var/cache/apt/archive 

and receive the above.

Here's my backends:

    [debian]
    ;; Backend servers, in order of preference
    backends = 
            http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian
            http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian
            http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian
            ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian


    [debian-non-US]
    ;; Debian debian-non-US archive
    ;timeout will be the global value
    backends =
            http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian-non-US
            http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US
            ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian

    [security]
    ;; Debian security archive
    backends = 
            http://security.debian.org/debian-security
            http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian-security


-- 
Bill Moseley
mo...@ha...