Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-21 Thread Tobias Hertkorn
One bad thing (amongs others) that happens if you use squid - first of all you have to make your clients use the proxy settings AND way more imortant - a request for http://yourserver/testing//apachedeb will not create a hit if requested as http://yourserver/sid//apache...deb .

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-20 Thread Tobias Hertkorn
Hi, I did an advanced programming project on Debian mirroring called apt-got. It is a standalone java server with mirroring capability. As a part of speeding up delivery, I programmed an apache module called mirror_mod. For documentation look here: