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how to set up an apt-proxy for debian hppa ?

parisc-linux M. Grabert 1 participant 1 message Feb 4, 2002

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Hi all,

I want to keep my C240 uptodate,
but unfortunately I don't have a Internet connection at home. (This would cost me a fortune and here in Ireland you can't get much more than 56.6k anyway)

However, I have a Internet connection (100Mbit) at work (university) and I have a laptop at work that I can use at home.

I don't think that I'd be allowed to take my C240 to the university in order to do an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade; moreover it's damn heavy ;-)
Therefore I want to fetch the latest hppa-packages and save them on my laptop and use the laptop as a kind of apt-proxy.

I don't have any clue how the debian package management works, but is all I need to do mirror the URLs listed in the /etc/apt/sources.list (at least the hppa-specific directories), e.g. by using wget ?

Since there is Win2k preinstalled on the laptop I have to use a solution that runs on Windows!
(at least my PC at work is 100% MS free ;)
Is there a mini-howto or software available that solves my problem (except http://sourceforge.net/projects/apt-proxy/) ?

Any hints ?

greetings max