The following commit has been merged in the upstream branch:
commit 90c0167359fecb8fbe4fd522f0877515ac11a96f
Author: Eric Cooper <e...@cmu.edu>
Date: Fri Apr 17 11:49:34 2009 -0400
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+Changing the location of the approx cache
+
+ Move your cache where you want it, then
+ replace the /var/cache/approx directory by a symlink:
+
+ mv /var/cache/approx /somewhere
+ ln -s /somewhere/approx /var/cache/approx
+
+ You should use a subdirectory for the cache, not a top-level
+ filesystem with a lost+found directory in it, to avoid complaints from
+ the approx-gc program.
+
+Exporting a local package repository
+
+ This is supported with file URLs. Note that the syntax for file URLs
+ requires 3 leading slashes (two for the URL syntax, and one for the root
+ of the pathname). So you can add something like this to /etc/approx.conf:
+
+ local file:///my/local/repo
+
+ The repo must have the structure that apt expects, including a
+ Packages.gz index. You can maintain a local repo with a tool like
+ dpkg-scanpackages or reprepro.
+
+Changing the TCP port on which approx listens
+
+ Run "dpkg-reconfigure approx" and enter the desired port number
+ when prompted.
+
+Changing the IP addresses on which approx listens
+
+ Add a host address specifier at the beginning of the approx entry
+ in /etc/inetd.conf. See the inetd(8) manual page for details.
+
+Controlling access to approx using TCP wrappers (hosts.allow and hosts.deny)
+
+ The /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files can be used for
+ host-based control of the approx service.
+
+ After adding the appropriate entries (see the hosts_access(5) manual page),
+ add the line
+ OPTIONS="-l"
+ to the file /etc/default/openbsd-inetd and then restart openbsd-inetd.
+
+Making approx use a proxy for its downloads
+
+ Since approx uses the curl(1) command to download files from
+ remote repositories, you can use the http_proxy environment variable
+ (or one of the others documented in the curl(1) manual page).
+
+ To pass this to approx, modify the inetd.conf entry for approx to run
+ an executable wrapper script instead of the /usr/sbin/approx binary.
+ You can use something like this for the wrapper:
+
+ #!/bin/sh
+
+ export http_proxy=myproxy.org:1234
+ exec /usr/sbin/approx
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