Re: Configuring APT to use localhost port as a proxy

2006-08-03 Thread Niall Donegan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Pogrebennyk wrote: > Hello, > > I have a ssh tunnel which connects localhost:3128 to remote proxy. I > have tried setting environment variables to localhost:3128 (and > http://localhost:3128) and modifying apt.conf as well, but apt tries to > f

Re: Configuring APT to use localhost port as a proxy

2006-08-03 Thread Andrew Pogrebennyk
Hello, Niall Donegan wrote: > Create a file in /etc/apt called apt.conf and put the following line in: > Acquire::http::Proxy "http://localhost:3128"; I tried doing so before, but I must have forgotten to restart aptitude that time. And after restart it work well. Thanks a lot! Ryan Nowakowski w

Re: Configuring APT to use localhost port as a proxy

2006-08-03 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 07:03:08PM +0300, Andrew Pogrebennyk wrote: > Hello, > > I have a ssh tunnel which connects localhost:3128 to remote proxy. I > have tried setting environment variables to localhost:3128 (and > http://localhost:3128) and modifying apt.conf as well, but apt tries to > fetch

Re: Configuring APT

2004-02-01 Thread Stefan Baums
>Package: * >Pin: release a=testing >Pin-Priority: 1001 > >Package: * >Pin: release a=unstable >Pin-Priority: 400 > >Package: * >Pin: release a=stable >Pin-Priority: 300 On further reflection I realised that those numbers will only do what I want (procession f

Re: Configuring APT

2004-01-31 Thread Stefan Baums
> Read the apt_preferences(5) man page, I did, but obviously not closely enough. > set the pin for unstable to 100 < P <=500. Done. However, after reading the man page I believe that I also need to set testing to P > 1000 in order to enable downgrading when the unstable or third-party package a

Re: Configuring APT

2004-01-31 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 04:55:26PM -0800, Stefan Baums said > Dear list, > > I would like to configure APT to do the following: > >- install requested and update installed packages from > repository X (unstable or third-party) for as long as those > packages are not available in rep