[nzlug] Apt-proxy - anyone with any experience?

[Daniel Lawson]

Nevyn wrote:
> Does anyone here use apt-proxy?
>
> I've spent most of the day trying to get it going but with very little
> luck. An update from a client machine has it sitting on "Waiting for
> headers" for ages and then it seems to fail to grab some headers - it
> seems to time out.
>
> How do I troubleshoot this? 

tcpdump.

A couple of other points: apt-proxy behaves badly if one of it's backend
sources is faulty - it will spend ages trying to connect to the faulty one.

I've also seen problems where apt-proxy on etch fails if you are
connecting to it with a sarge machine, due to apt repository keying
issues I think. I solved it by getting apt (and apt-key) from backports
for the sarge box, but I couldn't be bothered doing this for all my
machines so I reinstalled the apt-proxy xenU as sarge and started again.