NAME

       auto-apt-proxy - autodetect common APT proxy setups

USAGE

       auto-apt-proxy

       auto-apt-proxy [COMMAND [ARGS ...]]

DESCRIPTION

       auto-apt-proxy is an APT proxy autodetector, and detects common setups by checking localhost, your
       gateway and other "interesting" machines on your network for well-known APT proxies such as apt-cacher-ng
       and others.

       When called with no arguments, auto-apt-proxy simply prints the address of a detected process to the
       standard output. This package install an APT configuration file that makes APT use auto-apt-proxy to
       detect a proxy on every invocation of APT.

       When called with arguments, they are assumed to be a command. Such command will be executed with the
       common environment variables used for specifying HTTP proxies (http_proxy, HTTP_PROXY) set to the
       detected proxy. This way the executed command will be able to transparently use any detected APT proxy.
       Note that for this to work, any programs invoked by the given command must have their own support for
       detecting HTTP proxies from environment variables, and for using them.

EXAMPLES

       $ auto-apt-proxy

       Just prints the detected APT proxy

       $ auto-apt-proxy debootstrap sid /my/chroot

       Creates a new Debian chroot downloading packages from the local proxy.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2016-2017 Antonio Terceiro

       This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
       General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
       (at your option) any later version.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
       the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public
       License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program.  If not, see
       <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

                                                   2018-03-20                                  auto-apt-proxy(1)