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Name
       apt-proxy - A proxy for saving bandwidth to Debian servers


SYNOPSIS
       apt-proxy [options] [logfile]


DESCRIPTION
       apt-proxy  is  a  python  program  designed to be run as an stand alone
       server via twistd, and provides a clean, caching, intelligent proxy for
       apt-get,  which  speaks HTTP to apt-get clients, and http, ftp or rsync
       to the backend server(s).  apt-proxy listens by default on port 9999.

       -h, --help
              Display usage information.

       -c, --config-file=
              Configuration       file.         This        defaults        to
              /etc/apt-proxy/apt-proxy-v2.conf


CLIENT CONFIGURATION
       Once  apt-proxy  is  configured on a host SERVER, users then edit their
       sources.list file to point to the proxy (which uses the  http  protocol
       to serve clients), like so:

       deb http://SERVER:9999/debian stable main contrib non-free
       deb-src http://SERVER:9999/debian stable main contrib non-free

       deb http://aptproxy:9999/security stable/updates main contrib non-free

       What  path  should  be  specified after the server name and port number
       depends on the configuration of apt-proxy (which can restrict paths and
       send  different  paths to different servers).  See SERVER CONFIGURATION
       below.

       Note that you can also use the nicknames ‘unstable’, ‘frozen’ etc,  but
       Packages/Sources  files may get duplicated, so it is best to use either
       the symbolic or the code name and stick with it.


SERVER CONFIGURATION
       See apt-proxy.conf(5) for details of how to set  up  apt-proxy  to  use
       backends near to you.


CARE AND FEEDING OF MIRRORS
       apt-proxy  reduces  the  bandwidth  requirements  of  Debian mirrors by
       restricting the  frequency  of  Packages,  Releases  and  Sources  file
       updates  from  the back end and only doing a single fetch for any file,
       how ever many users request it from the proxy.


FILES
       /etc/apt-proxy/apt-proxy.conf or /etc/apt-proxy/apt-proxy-v2.conf


SEE ALSO
       apt-proxy.conf(5),apt-proxy-import(8)


BUGS
       Packages are not compressed using gzip --rsyncable, which gives  a  30%
       reduction  in  bytes  transferred for binary packages, and much greater
       for source and other packages.


AUTHORS
       apt-proxy v2 was written by Manuel Estrada Sainz and is  maintained  by
       Otavio Salvador and Chris Halls.