On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 03:27:26PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I had so many problems that I stopped using apt-cacher. Even before > your message, I was thinking of giving it another try, so your message > gives me an extra incentive.
Good! > It sounds as if some of the recent and pending fixes are related to some > of the problems I was having, so I'd prefer to wait until the pending > fixes have migrated into the package. Do you expect that to happen > soon? If you want to try/test the bleeding edge stuff you can try 1.5.4.1 which you can get from www.hindley.org.uk/~mark/debian. I am testing it at the moment. It has most of the fixes for bugs that are tagged pending. It would be a help to me to know they are *really* fixed! > > It would also be useful for me to get some clarification of issues like > how to use path_map (bug 364361) Yes, I know the documentation of this needs rewriting. Basically it maps paths to hosts. So if you have path_map debian ftp.uk.debian.org if you fetch http://localhost:3142/debian/whatever apt-cacher will download and cache http://ftp.uk.debian.org/whatever >and whether apt-cacher will work > properly with multiple releases (such as testing and unstable--I just > filed a bug but don't have the number). Yes it does. See separate reply. >Also, does apt-cacher currently > work with apt-listbugs (364904 seems to say not, but maybe it's only > saying that the bugs aren't kept by apt-cacher)? Fix in 1.5.4.1 > > Finally, if I set http::Proxy in apt.conf, will my ftp:// entries in > source.list continue to work (maybe more of an apt question, I know)? I am not sure about that. This appears to be an alternative way that some people are using apt-cacher. I don't think it is documented. It may work. If you feel it is useful then > > Finally, at least two exceptional events occurred while getting my old > errors: the external mirror I was using went down, and my disk filled > up. It may be difficult to reproduce those circumstances. Again, I hope apt-cacher-cleaner is now more reliable. You can run it with a -s option to show what it would do (without risking losing the cache contents). Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
