Recent changes to feature-requests

Add proxy auth support for v2

Linus Lotz — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:12:37 -0000

I don't know if this is really a feature request, as
I've implemented it already.

The patch that is included will make it possible to use
proxy auth. Just modify the configuration from

http_proxy = host:port

http_proxy = user:password@host:port

the patch must be aplied in the same directory as
apt_proxy.py

Have fun

Linus Lotz

Handling for gpg signed packages

frosch01 — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 20:47:15 -0000

Hi,

with newer version of apt I received warnings about
unsafe packages. It was no big thing to get the
signing keys and I think it is a good thing.

Unfortunately apt-proxy has no support for
handling of gpg signs. Are there any plans to bring
up support for this?

frosch01

apt-file support

Anton Hattendorf — Wed, 01 Jan 2003 18:43:13 -0000

Hallo

Will apt-file be suportet by apt-proxy?

Bye bye
Anton

Mixed protocol capabilties

Victor Morilla Padial — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:32:15 -0000

It would be nice to add apt-proxy the possibility of
defining different transfer protocols for plain text files
and gzipped files (like .debs)

With my very low connection I lose a lot of time doing
apt-get updates, so I would like to use rsync for these
files, and http for debs

Full support for multiple distributions

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Aug 2002 17:43:26 -0000

Support for multiple distributions is somewhat broken
(in 1.3.0 at least) resulting in aggressive removal of
packages due to the multi-dist nature of the .deb pool
structure.

For example, say that an apt-proxy cache supports a set
of "woody" machines. If one of the machines is
upgraded to "testing" ("sarge"), then many "woody"
version-level debs will be flushed from the cache by
the new "testing" version-level debs. Any time a
down-level version of one of these packages is needed
by a new or existing "woody" installation, then it will
unnecessarily need to be re-fetched from the back-end
source.

With 100's of version-levels differing between
"testing" and "woody," this effectively means that
multiple distributions cannot harmoniously be cached by
apt-proxy.

Must a separate apt-proxy be used for each
distribution, or is there a better way to support
multiple distributions?

apt-proxy fails on non-linux OS

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:35:37 -0000

apt-proxy does not work with the system supplied
utilities on solaris (and probably any other non-linux
OS).

i had to install GNU date (for shellutils) and GNU dd
(from fileutils), install readlink (from the debianutils
package). and run the script with bash, because there are
a number of bashisms in the script that real /bin/sh's
don't grok.

it seems to work now, but hey, it would be so nice if that
thing would also run on other platforms without having to
install half a GNU box.