On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 09:11:56AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Package: apt-cacher > Version: 1.6.12 > Severity: important > > Hi, > > I'm working on some d-i patches, and in order to avoid having to wait > for the installer all the time while it downloads udebs or the base > system, I installed apt-cacher on my laptop, so that the virtualbox > instances where the installer was running could fetch their udebs from > the apt-cacher cache.
Sounds a good idea. However, the imminent 1.7.0 release (rc1 already in experimental) will officially deprecate CGI mode. If you want to avoid a permanently running daemon, I would suggest inetd daemon mode is better. > Originally I tried to run it from apache, and preseeded '10.0.2.2' as > the hostname of my mirror. Unfortunately that didn't work; the > apt-cacher error.log contains the following as a result of that attempt: By preseeded you mean passed to the d-i running on virtualbox? Have you configured an upstream proxy for apt-cacher itself? What are you passing as your mirror? I from what I can glean here, I think it should be http://10.0.2.2/apt-cacher/ftp.be.debian A similar thing works for me using debootstrap and 1.7.0.rc1 > Mon Jul 4 08:42:25 2011|info [11577]: Unable to connect to 10.0.2.2 > Mon Jul 4 08:44:19 2011|info [22940]: Unable to connect to 10.0.2.2 > Mon Jul 4 08:45:35 2011|info [22952]: Unable to connect to 10.0.2.2 Could you enable apt-cacher debugging so we can see a little more of what requests are actually getting through. > For reference, 10.0.2.2 is the IP address that virtualbox hands to guest > instances as their default route. Using it will reach you the host OS, > but the host OS itself is not aware of that fact; virtualbox will do NAT > for guest machines. I have no experience with virtualbox, but I will see if I can get a working installation to replicate later on. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
