[Riley Baird] > This isn't a permanent solution, but it's kind of a workaround. > apt-file doesn't seem to allow the plus sign to be in the protocol > name, I've changed it to change it to torhttp. After that, add the > following line to your /etc/apt/apt-file.conf and it should work. Be > careful, though, because torify isn't perfect, and I don't know if it > preserves anonymity when used with diffindex-download.
Thank you for this tip. While I guess apt-file can be adjusted to accept the plus sign in protocol names (or apt-transport-tor can be changed to use another protocol name), isn't it better to change apt-file to use the apt transport method in /usr/lib/apt/methods/, and thus download the exact same way apt is? Why isn't apt-file already using those methods for downloading? -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
