[Apt-cacher-ng-users] apt-cacher-nh and urpmi (Mandriva & Mageia)

[Jean Parpaillon]

Hi,

Le mardi 24 mai 2011 à 20:56 +0200, Eduard Bloch a écrit :
> #include <hallo.h>
> * Jean Parpaillon [Tue, May 24 2011, 12:59:06PM]:
> > Hi,
> > I am using apt-cacher-ng for Debian and Ubuntu system with great
> > satisfaction for some time now !
> > I need now to use it for Mandriva distribution. The package manager is
> > urpmi and it has builtin repo support, which present me from using a
> > regular proxy.
> > 
> > Have you ever tried to use apt-cacher-ng with this tool ? I've read you
> > get pain while trying to adapt it for yum. What are the blocking
> > points ?
> 
> I don't remember the details. IIRC the blocking point for me was that
> when I tried to set an HTTP proxy for package related work but NOT for
> user settings, I could not find a single place to do so. Something
> always tried to do something without proxy.
> 
> > What would it need to make it run ? 
> 
> a) find a good place to configure the package proxy (which can be
> documented in a user-friendly way)
> 
> b) identify which files have static contents (like RPMs with unique
> names) and which are the volatile ones, compose appropriate regexps and
> add them to acfg_defaults.cc . Plus, find the content index file which
> serves as entry point (not referenced by any other one) and add it to
> the whitelist pattern.
> 
> c) write a parser for index files which collects file descriptions and
> checksums
> 
> d) (optional) if there is a well synchronized mirror network, write a
> Remap-... configuration example for acng.conf
> 
> e) (optional, hacking) add automated import function to get a list of
> the mirror network servers into a URL list file (see
> Debian/Ubuntu/ArchLinux examples in GNUMakefile)
> 
> I think that should be all for the moment.
> 

Thank you very much for these informations.

I will tell you as soon as I have done some work on it.

> Regards,
> Eduard.
> 
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Best regards,
-- 
Jean Parpaillon
R&D Engineer
http://mandriva.com
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