Package: approx Version: 2.06 Severity: normal Hi,
I set up approx to act as a transparent apt cache, so that all systems can use the proxy without any proxy settings or modification in the sources.list. This fails with the apt repository from www.debian-multimedia.org. This is the corresponding sources.list entry: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main It is mentioned in the approx configuration: marillat http://www.debian-multimedia.org Approx runs intro this error: approx: Connection from 10.100.1.252:52200 approx: Request /dists/sid/Release approx: Host: www.debian-multimedia.org approx: Connection: keep-alive approx: If-Modified-Since: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:51:27 GMT approx: User-Agent: Debian APT-HTTP/1.3 approx: no remote repository found for dists I don't know why approx uses "dists" here. My understanding of the map line is that it looks for a local cache named "marillat". I played around with another repository and now I'm totally confused. This is the sources list entry: deb http://home.arcor.de/scorpidnb/mythtv/current/debian/ sid main This is the approx.conf entry: foobar http://home.arcor.de/scorpidnb Now I get this error message: approx: Host: home.arcor.de approx: Connection: keep-alive approx: User-Agent: Debian APT-HTTP/1.3 approx: no remote repository found for scorpidnb What is the real purpose of the first argument in the aprrox.conf config line? The man page doesn't really explain this enough. I would think that this is the name of the local cache in /var/cache/approx. I renamed the foobar into scorbidnb and then it worked. However, it didn't work for www.debian-multimedia.org. I renamed it into dists, but then approx still failed because it tries to fetch this URL: http://www.debian-multimedia.org/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz This is wrong. The correct URL would be this: http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz So, it misses the "dist" here. I would be glad if you could clarify the mapping configuration and also make the mapping somewhat more useable, as it currently doesn't seem to work with certain repositories. Regards, Tino -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.7 Locale: LANG=C, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages approx depends on: ii adduser 3.95 Add and remove users and groups ii bzip2 1.0.3-3 high-quality block-sorting file co ii curl 7.15.4-1 Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS, FT ii libc6 2.3.6-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpcre3 6.4-2 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi approx recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
