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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
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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
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On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 09:21:19PM +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> I think this bug can be closed, maybe your explanation above could be
> added to the manpage to help other people who try to understand the
> approx behaviour.
Thanks, I'll do that.
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Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
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