Package: apt-cacher-ng Version: 0.7.13-1 Severity: wishlist Thank you for very good tool for caching. You have converted squid believer :-)
This is somewhat related to http://bugs.debian.org/702379 but wishlist request is different. My main request: Can you make all configurable files such as /usr/lib/apt-cacher-ng/*_mirrors files for apt-cacher-ng overridable by the same filename file under /etc/apt-cacher-ng. So we do not need to have configuration outside of /etc. Long story: Currently, we can edit files in /usr/lib/apt-cacher-ng/ or change /etc/apt-cacher-ng/*.default symlink to change the behavior of apt-cacher-ng server. This makes it not so simple to override parts of the configuration and overriding method is not uniform across files. The empty backends_debian was cryptic for me until I read the meaning of the backends_debian.default in README.Debian (these server config are not much mentioned in "3.1 Server Configuration" in easier to read HTML document.) It would be nice if package is updated as follows: 0. /etc/apt-cacher-ng/README should be placed to explain as: The default configuration files of apt-cacher-ng is located under /usr/lib/apt-cacher-ng/acng.conf.d/. They are concatenated in the ASCII-order of their filenames to form the effective configuration. User can override the default configuration by creating the same filename exist under /etc/apt-cacher-ng/acng.conf.d/. User can add the custom configuration by adding a new file under /etc/apt-cacher-ng/acng.conf.d/. The same goes with other configuration files such as /usr/lib/*_mirrors. For more, read /usr/share/apt-cacher-ng/html/index.html 1. In addition to above README, ship security.conf only under /etc/apt-cacher-ng/. 2. Update "3.1 Server Configuration" by including many parts of README.Debian. 3. Update configuration reading routine to match README. /usr/lib/apt-cacher-ng/acng.conf.d/ should have multiple files for modular user configuration override. Minor point #1: "Proxy: ..." in acng.conf is explained only in the file. It would be nice if this is documented in main HTML. Text may be more clear if it states as follows: The specification of the upstream proxy which shall be used for downloads to this proxy. This allows to use another apt-cacher-ng server as the proxy server. (I did not understand "Username and password are, and see manual for limitations." Where in manual are you talking?) Minor point #2: Putting some URL in /etc/apt-cacher-ng/backends_debian makes that URL treated almost as a part of debian archive for cached *.deb files and store files under /var/cache/apt-cacher-ng/debrep. But when accessing files such as dists/sid/main/binary-amd64/Packages, it reads from the URL specified (not from the first URL in /etc/apt-cacher-ng/backends_debian.default. Somewhat inconsistent. Minor point #3: Can you update bug script to skip security.conf ? -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages apt-cacher-ng depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.50 ii dpkg 1.16.10 ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-4 ii libc6 2.17-7 ii libgcc1 1:4.8.1-5 ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 ii libstdc++6 4.8.1-5 ii libwrap0 7.6.q-24 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1 Versions of packages apt-cacher-ng recommends: ii avahi-daemon 0.6.31-2 ii ed 1.9-1 ii perl 5.14.2-21 Versions of packages apt-cacher-ng suggests: ii curl 7.31.0-2 ii doc-base 0.10.5 ii libfuse2 2.9.2-4 ii wget 1.14-2 -- Configuration Files: /etc/apt-cacher-ng/backends_debian changed: http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/ http://debian-mirror.sakura.ne.jp/debian/ http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/debian/ http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ /etc/apt-cacher-ng/security.conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/apt-cacher-ng/security.conf' -- debconf information: apt-cacher-ng/gentargetmode: No automated setup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
