Hello. I've tried to set up apt-cacher on one of my system, using exactly same configuration as already works on my other system.
I faced problem that attempts to download packages hang. I've started to look into code, and found the following. Apt-get isseas http GET request: GET http://my.host:9999/debian/... Inside apt-cacher, '$path' variable gets all that line, with http://my.host:9999/ prefix included. Later, when the following code works: # tolerate CGI specific junk and two slashes in the beginning $path =~ s!^/apt-cacher\??/!/!; $path =~ s!^//!/!; $path =~ s!^http://!!; # allow proxy style so $path is now "my.host:9999/debian/..." Then, after my($host,$uri) = ($path =~ m#^/?([^/]+)(/.+)#); line is executed, $host becomes "my.host:9999" and $uri becomes "/debian/..." Which is obviously wrong, because $host here should be not the host of apt-cacher itself, but first part of the path (i.e. host from where to download). So later apt-cacher tries to connect to itself. While processing this request, it detects that file in question is already being downloaded, and just hangs. I was able to fix the situation by replacing $path =~ s!^http://!!; # allow proxy style with $path =~ s!^http://[^/]*!!; # allow proxy style I have no idea why the code works in some situations and does not work in others.
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