Package: auto-apt-proxy (16.5)

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automatic detector of common APT proxy settings

auto-apt-proxy installs itself as an APT proxy autodetector, and detects common setups by checking some hosts on the local network for well-known APT proxies such as apt-cacher-ng.

This package is most useful for development environments, and will Do The Right Thing for at least these cases:

  * Build chroots, with a proxy running on the host system.
  * Docker/lxc containers, with a proxy running on the host system.
  * Virtual machines with NAT networking, with a proxy running on the host
    system.
  * Any other system, with a proxy running on its default gateway.
  * Systems where the `apt-proxy` hostname resolves to a valid IP address
    and a supported proxy is detected at that address.

The following APT proxy servers are supported and automatically detected:

  * apt-cacher-ng
  * approx
  * apt-cacher
  * squid-deb-proxy
  * any proxy advertised by an _apt_proxy._tcp SRV record in your domain
  * any proxy advertised by an _apt_proxy._tcp SRV record in mDNS (needs
    avahi-tools to be installed, and avahi-daemon to be installed and
    running)

This package has a minimal set of dependencies in order to minimize the influence on systems where it is installed. However, if neither iproute2 nor busybox are installed, functionality is severily limited.

Other Packages Related to auto-apt-proxy

• dep: apt

  commandline package manager

• rec: busybox

  Tiny utilities for small and embedded systems
  also a virtual package provided by busybox-static

  or iproute2

  networking and traffic control tools

• sug: avahi-utils

  Avahi browsing, publishing and discovery utilities

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