Bug#733087: [LCFC] templates://apt-cacher-ng/{apt-cacher-ng.templates}
Christian PERRIER wrote: This is the last call for comments for the review of debconf templates for apt-cacher-ng. Sorry, I somehow missed the RFR for this! But I remember reading the package description and seeing nothing I would change there, so for once I can't blame Gmail. Template: apt-cacher-ng/gentargetmode [...] Apt-Cacher NG can download packages from repositories other than those requested by the clients. This allows it to cache content effectively, and makes it easy for an administrator to switch to another mirror later. . This remapping of URLs can be configured now in an automated way based on the current state of /etc/apt/sources.list. Optionally, this process can be repeated on every package update (modifying the configuration files each time). . Selecting No automated setup will leave the existing configuration unchanged. It will need to be updated manually. The confusing part is that this tells the admin about two lots of things AC-NG can do without making it immediately obvious that we're asking for input on whether it should do the _second_ thing. It's not: Please specify whether Apt-Cacher NG should download packages [...] It's: Apt-Cacher NG can download packages [...] . Please specify whether this remapping of URLs should be configured [...] But that approach gives a badly overstretched sentence in the second paragraph. How about splitting it slightly differently: Apt-Cacher NG can download packages from repositories other than those requested by the clients. This allows it to cache content effectively, and makes it easy for an administrator to switch to another mirror later. The URL remapping can be set up automatically, using a configuration based on the current state of /etc/apt/sources.list. . Please specify whether the remapping should be configured once now, or reconfigured on every update of Apt-Cacher NG (modifying the configuration files each time), or left unconfigured. . Selecting No automated setup will leave the existing configuration unchanged. It will need to be updated manually. Template: apt-cacher-ng/bindaddress Type: string Default: keep _Description: Address(es) for apt-cacher-ng to listen to: Wait, it doesn't listen *to* these addresses. They're local network interfaces that it listens *on*. And shouldn't it be Apt-Cacher NG? Perhaps to match the following prompt: _Description: Listening address(es) for Apt-Cacher-NG: Please enter the addresses or hostnames which should be used by apt-cacher-ng (multiple entries must be separated by spaces). Make that Please specify the local addresses that Apt-Cacher NG should listen on (multiple entries must be separated by spaces). . Each entry must be an exact address (IP or hostname) which is associated with a local network interface. Generic protocol specific addresses are supported, such as 0.0.0.0 for listening on all IPv4 enabled interfaces. I don't like an exact address (IP or hostname) - for a start, how would an interface's IP address be anything but exact? Asking for an exact hostname sounds as if it wants the FQDN. And it turns out that it's happy to accept 0.0.0.0, which hardly seems very exact. Besides which, there's no such thing as an IP. Just say: Each entry must be an IP address or hostname associated with a local network interface. Generic protocol-specific addresses are also supported, such as 0.0.0.0 for listening on all IPv4-enabled interfaces. (Note added hyphens.) . If this field is left empty, apt-cacher-ng wille listen on all interfaces, with all supported protocols. Typo. . The special word keep keeps the value from the current (or default) configuration unchanged. Template: apt-cacher-ng/port Type: string Default: keep _Description: Listening TCP port: Please configure the TCP port where Apt-Cacher NG should listen for incoming HTTP (proxy) requests. The default value is port 3142, and it can be set to to emulate apt-proxy. I don't like the where. Or the and. Please specify the TCP port that Apt-Cacher NG should listen on for incoming HTTP (proxy) requests. The default value is port 3142, but it can be set to to emulate apt-proxy. . If left empty, the value from the current configuration remains unchanged. Make that If this field is left empty again. Template: apt-cacher-ng/cachedir Type: string Default: keep _Description: Top level directory for packages cache: ^ I probably wouldn't add plural marking in this noun stack. And while I'm here I'll add a hyphen to top-level. The main cache storage directory should be located on a file system without file name restrictions. No Please specify? Well, it makes a change, I suppose. (A file with a name consisting of a billion nulls is going to be unwelcome more or less anywhere, but let's assume the word
Bug#733087: [LCFC] templates://apt-cacher-ng/{apt-cacher-ng.templates}
Quoting Justin B Rye (justin.byam@gmail.com): Christian PERRIER wrote: This is the last call for comments for the review of debconf templates for apt-cacher-ng. Sorry, I somehow missed the RFR for this! But I remember reading the package description and seeing nothing I would change there, so for once I can't blame Gmail. Strange, as victory also apparently missed the RFR and just pointed the typo after I posted the LCFC. Maybe a problem on my side where I was under the feeling that I sent the RFR, but indeed didn't. Anyway...I just picked Justin's reviewed version and will use them in the final summary, probably. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#733087: [LCFC] templates://apt-cacher-ng/{apt-cacher-ng.templates}
This is the last call for comments for the review of debconf
templates for apt-cacher-ng.
The reviewed templates will be sent on Wednesday, January 22, 2014 to this bug
report
and a mail will be sent to this list with [BTS] as a subject tag.
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# These templates have been reviewed by the debian-l10n-english
# team
#
# If modifications/additions/rewording are needed, please ask
# debian-l10n-engl...@lists.debian.org for advice.
#
# Even minor modifications require translation updates and such
# changes should be coordinated with translators and reviewers.
Template: apt-cacher-ng/gentargetmode
Type: select
__Choices: Set up once, Set up now and update later, No automated setup
Default: Set up once
_Description: Automatic remapping of client requests:
Apt-Cacher NG can download packages from repositories other than those
requested by the clients. This allows it to cache content effectively,
and makes it easy for an administrator to switch to another mirror later.
.
This remapping of URLs can be configured now in an automated way based on the
current state of /etc/apt/sources.list. Optionally, this process can be
repeated on every package update (modifying the configuration files each
time).
.
Selecting No automated setup will leave the existing configuration
unchanged. It will need to be updated manually.
Template: apt-cacher-ng/bindaddress
Type: string
Default: keep
_Description: Address(es) for apt-cacher-ng to listen to:
Please enter the addresses or hostnames which should be used by
apt-cacher-ng (multiple entries must be separated by spaces).
.
Each entry must be an exact address (IP or hostname) which is
associated with a local network interface. Generic protocol specific addresses
are supported, such as 0.0.0.0 for listening on all IPv4 enabled interfaces.
.
If this field is left empty, apt-cacher-ng wille listen on all
interfaces, with all supported protocols.
.
The special word keep keeps the value from the current (or default)
configuration unchanged.
Template: apt-cacher-ng/port
Type: string
Default: keep
_Description: Listening TCP port:
Please configure the TCP port where Apt-Cacher NG should listen for incoming
HTTP
(proxy) requests. The default value is port 3142, and it can be set to to
emulate
apt-proxy.
.
If left empty, the value from the current configuration remains unchanged.
Template: apt-cacher-ng/cachedir
Type: string
Default: keep
_Description: Top level directory for packages cache:
The main cache storage directory should be located on a file system without
file name restrictions.
.
If left empty, the value from the current configuration remains unchanged or
is set to default directory /var/cache/apt-cacher-ng.
Template: apt-cacher-ng/proxy
Type: string
Default: keep
_Description: Proxy to use for downloads:
Please specify the proxy server to use for downloads.
.
Username and password for the proxy server can be included here following the
user:pass@host:port scheme. However, please check the documentation for
limitations.
.
If this field is left empty, apt-cacher NG will not use any proxy
server.
.
The special word keep keeps the value from the current (or default)
configuration unchanged.
Source: apt-cacher-ng
Section: net
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Eduard Bloch bl...@debian.org
Build-Depends: debhelper (= 9), cmake (= 2.6.2), libbz2-dev, zlib1g-dev,
liblzma-dev, libfuse-dev [!hurd-i386], pkg-config, libwrap0-dev, lsb-base (
3.0-6), dh-systemd (= 1.5), po-debconf, libssl-dev
Standards-Version: 3.9.5
Homepage: http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/
Package: apt-cacher-ng
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, adduser
Pre-Depends: dpkg (= 1.15.6)
Recommends: ed, avahi-daemon
Conflicts: logrotate ( 3.8.0)
Suggests: doc-base, libfuse2 (= 2.5), curl | wget
Description: caching proxy server for software repositories
Apt-Cacher NG is a caching proxy for downloading packages from Debian-style
software repositories (or possibly from other types).
.
The main principle is that a central machine hosts the proxy for a local
network, and clients configure their APT setup to download through it.
Apt-Cacher NG keeps a copy of all useful data that passes through it, and when
a similar request is made, the cached copy of the data is delivered without
being re-downloaded.
.
Apt-Cacher NG has been designed from scratch as a replacement for
apt-cacher, but with a focus on maximizing throughput with low system
resource requirements. It can also be used as replacement for apt-proxy and
approx with no need to modify clients' sources.list files.
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Bug#733087: [LCFC] templates://apt-cacher-ng/{apt-cacher-ng.templates}
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 07:57:48 +0100 Christian PERRIER wrote: If this field is left empty, apt-cacher-ng wille listen on all interfaces, with all supported protocols. s/wille/will/ -- victory no need to CC me :-) http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/102724 0.0.1.4 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/163846 0.0.1 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/163848 0.0.1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
