On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 03:31:28PM +0100, intrigeri wrote: > hi, > > Nick Bailey wrote (18 Nov 2011 16:11:27 GMT) : > > Hi, I'm trying to build a live hdd image for distribution on USB key > > with some of our software and an ability to install a debian system > > on the host machine. Unfortunately, my institution has a proxy-enforcing > > policy. I also need to use apt-cacher-ng (or similar) to avoid hitting > > the repositories hard while tweeking the additional software. > > The setup I, and several other Tails developers, have been using for > a while, is documented on our website: > > https://tails.boum.org/build/squid-deb-proxy/ > > Hope it helps. > > Cheers, > -- > intrigeri <[email protected]> > | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc > | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc > | Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not > | die of starvation would entail the risk of dying of boredom ?
Thanks for the URL, intrigeri. I had given up on --apt-http-proxy because it didn't work with apt-cacher-ng, failing at the debootstrap stage as below. Now I see you are using it with squid, so I investigated further. It seems that it's possible to get past the debootstrap by settng http_proxy to point at the local apt-cacher-ng proxy as well. However this fails at the debian installer phase with the message: E: Could not download file: http://localhost:3142/ftp.uk.debian.org/debian//dists/wheezy/main/installer-i386/current/images//cdrom/vmlinuz Is this a bug? I should imagine that most sites don't have the overly restrictive proxy policy I have to work with, so maybe it slipped though testing. There again, many people would be using squid or apt-cacher-ng, I'm sure. I've tried everything else I can think of, such as setting and unsetting the http_proxy environment variable during the build, but no dice. Any hints gratefully appreciated. Meanwhile, I guess I'll have to build the final image using my cell phone's data modem :P Failure when environment variable http_proxy is unset: root@ingrid:~/smrg-live# lb config --apt-http-proxy "http://127.0.0.1:3142/"; P: Executing auto/config script. P: Considering defaults defined in /etc/live/build.conf P: Updating config tree root@ingrid:~/smrg-live# lb build P: Executing auto/build script. P: Setting up cleanup function P: Restoring bootstrap stage from cache... P: Begin bootstrapping system... P: If the following stage fails, the most likely cause of the problem is with your mirror configuration or a caching proxy. P: Running debootstrap (download-only)... I: Retrieving Release E: Failed getting release file http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/Release -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
