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.
CONFIGURATION
When your apt proxy is installed on localhost or your default gateway, it should Just Work. If you install it somewhere else, you can create an explicit SRV record to tell auto-apt-proxy about it.
Suppose your corporate domain is "example.com", and apt-cacher-ng is installed on "apt-cacher-ng.example.com", and auto-apt-proxy is installed on "alices-laptop.example.com".
The appropriate SRV record in dnsmasq.conf would look like this:
srv-host=_apt_proxy._tcp.example.com,apt-cacher-ng.example.com,3142
The appropriate nsd/bind zonefile entry would look like this (untested):
_apt_proxy._tcp.@ IN SRV 0 0 3142 apt-cacher-ng.@
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) 2016-2019 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/>;.