Rewrite urls to mirror

[Stuart Bishop]

Please allow specifying a MIRROR in /etc/default/squid-deb-proxy , and use this setting to rewrite http://(*.)?archive.ubuntu.com/ to $MIRROR. This would be of most benefit to mobile users.

http://scyu.logdown.com/posts/260278-squid-deb-proxy-redirect-default-ubuntu-repositories-to-local-mirror describes the process for people wanting to set this up manually.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

apt-cacher-ng can do this easily in the background, maybe that is a better solution?

[Chris Glass (tribaal)]

I started working on a what I believe is a fix for this - using the "store_id_program" configuration in squid, all known mirrors will be remapped internally to the distribution's "main" mirror URL, and therefore result in a cache hit no matter what the mirror used in the apt configuration is.

Unknown mirrors (mirrors not listed in /usr/share/python-apt/templates/*) will continue to behave as today.

[Chris Glass (tribaal)]

I have a preliminary solution to this working in ppa:tribaal/squid-deb-proxy

Note that while it should improve the hit rate, it is also a little hard to see it working since the existing squid logs mention the URL - not the store ID.

Feedback welcome.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

and again, what's the reason not to use existing tools, specifically made for this purpose, but to increase complexity and bloat?

[Steve Dodd (anarchetic)]

To follow on from the last comment - my acng install seems to be constantly getting itself into a messed up state, requiring manual pruning of corrupted files from its cache, and now apparently something has happened which makes its automatic maintenance constantly fail, and I absolutely cannot fix it.

I'd love to see Chris's work merged if it's in a usable state?