On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 06:46:07PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > I wasn't aware that ???apt-cacher??? works as an HTTP proxy, I'd love to > know how to use it that way! I thought one needs to modify the > requested URLs in ???sources.list??? directly.
Yes, you could leave sources.list unchanged and set Acquire::http::Proxy in apt.conf. See man apt-cacher(1) and apt.conf(5) > So, here is the configuration (currently disabled) on the machine that > has slow performance via ???apt-cacher???: > > ===== > $ grep -v '^\(#.*\|\s*\)$' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/whitetree-lan.list.DISABLED > deb http://proxy:3142/security.debian.org/debian-security/ lenny/updates main > deb http://proxy:3142/mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian/ lenny main > ===== > > The above configuration (when enabled by renaming the file) causes the > behaviour reported in this bug report; so, I've currently got that > machine configured with this: > > ===== > $ grep -v '^\(#.*\|\s*\)$' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/whitetree-lan.NOPROXY.list > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ lenny/updates main > deb http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian/ lenny main > ===== > > The above configuration works properly, in contrast to the > configuration using the proxy. > > > > The debug log doesn't currently exist (at least, I see no file > > > named ???/var/log/apt-cacher/debug.log???). What specifically do I > > > need to do to get that? > > > > Set debug=0 in /etc/apt-cacher/apt-cacher.confo > Its configuration already has ???debug=0???. I presume you mean something > other than that value? Perhaps ???debug=1??? or something else? > Sorry, that should be debug=1 :) > Once I've changed the configuration, is there some particular sequence > of actions you want me to perform before giving the resulting debug > log output? Restore the disabled sources.list that triggers the bug and then do apt-get update. /var/log/apt-cacher/error.log should then contain debug info about what apt-cacher is doing. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]