On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:28:56AM +0200, Chris Halls wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 10:15:54PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > But, I can't figure out what I should tell the netinstall software when it
> > asks me to specify a mirror. Some particulars of my system:
>
> > The url of the host running apt-proxy is cmn.lan.gnu .
> > A sample line in a using host sources.list is
> > deb http://cmn.lan.gnu:9999/main woody main contrib non-free
>
> > What do I type on a newly attached machine to get it to make use
> > of the apt-cache for a net install of sarge? Or is this proto-feature
> > not implemented?
>
> Quoting from apt-proxy's README:
>
> ---------
> Q: What else is apt-proxy known to work with? How do I configure it?
> [...]
> A2: debootstrap, which uses wget. This means you can easily install new
> machine using the packages out of your apt-proxy cache. In boot floppies,
> specify http://APTPROXY:9999/main as your debian mirror (replacing APTPROXY
> with the name or IP address of the machine where apt-proxy is running).
> ---------
>
> In your case, tell it your debian mirror is at:
>
> http://cmn.lan.gnu:9999/main
>
Thanks, Chris, but there is more to my problem. I used the above line, and
it lead me to report a bug against install, which was promptly squashed by
Sebastian Ley. When I applied his input to my apt-proxy, I got different
error messages that indicated install was actually finding my apt-proxy,
but did not approve of its internal structure, e.g.
"404 File not found",
"403 Forbidden",
"404 Unknown extension".
Here is the meat of my apt-proxy.conf. It may be badly/foolishly done:
# Configuration for apt-proxy, with most comments removed
# for compact help request post
APT_PROXY_CACHE=/sdb5/cache/apt-proxy
add_backend /main/ \
$APT_PROXY_CACHE/debian/ \
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ \
http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian/ \
http://lyre.mit.edu/debian/ \
http://debian.rutgers.edu/
add_backend /debian-non-US/ \
$APT_PROXY_CACHE/debian-non-US/ \
http://non-us.debian.org/ \
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/ \
http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian-non-US/
add_backend /security/ \
$APT_PROXY_CACHE/security/ \
http://security.debian.org/ \
http://non-us.debian.org/debian-security/
add_backend /openoffice/ \
$APT_PROXY_CACHE/openoffice/ \
http://ftp.sk.debian.org/openoffice-debian/
CLEANUP_DAYS=180
CLEAN_SWEEP=360
MAX_VERSIONS=3
BACKEND_FREQ=240
RSYNC_TIMEOUT=30
WGET_TIMEOUT=30
#WGET=wget
#RSYNC=rsync
KEEP_STATS=1
DEBUG=true
<end>
Here is du output that shows the top 3 levels of the actual directory
layout:
1904 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/debian/dists/woody
2612 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/debian/dists/sarge
4520 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/debian/dists
1804 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/debian/.apt-proxy-filelists
35284 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/debian/pool/contrib
355336 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/debian/pool/main
390624 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/debian/pool
396952 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/debian
220 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/security/dists/stable
56 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/security/dists/testing
280 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/security/dists
112 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/security/.apt-proxy-filelists
48032 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/security/pool/updates
48036 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/security/pool
48432 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/security
44 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/openoffice/dists/woody
40 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/openoffice/dists/sarge
88 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/openoffice/dists
24 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/openoffice/.apt-proxy-filelists
116 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/openoffice
96 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/debian-non-US/dists/woody
60 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/debian-non-US/dists/sarge
160 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/debian-non-US/dists
48 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/debian-non-US/.apt-proxy-filelists
212 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy/debian-non-US
445716 /sdb5/cache/apt-proxy
<end>
Here is the sources.list from a host that appears to use this apt-proxy successfully:
deb http://cmn.lan.gnu:9999/security stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://cmn.lan.gnu:9999/main woody main contrib non-free
deb http://cmn.lan.gnu:9999/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://cmn.lan.gnu:9999/openoffice woody main contrib
deb http://cmn.lan.gnu:9999/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://cmn.lan.gnu:9999/main sarge main contrib non-free
deb http://cmn.lan.gnu:9999/debian-non-US sarge/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://cmn.lan.gnu:9999/openoffice sarge main contrib
<end>
I'm hoping that someone can spot the errors in my work, and tell
me what I should have in apt-proxy.conf. And I hope I can populate
a correctly configured apt-proxy without downloading all this again.
PS. I don't know why the first 'add_backend' is differently
configured than the others. It's what I did, and I stopped fiddling
when it started working. I am not at all confident of my understanding
of this.
Thanks.
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Paul E Condon
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