Re: WWWOFFLE and apt-get

amb-Uxr6IM1mbv2TY6FTCsQk+9Bc4/[email protected] (Andrew M. Bishop)
Newsgroups gmane.network.wwwoffle.user
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Felix Karpfen <[email protected]> writes:

> I note that (as a Debian Newbie) my ventures into downloading packages
> from a Debian mirror with "apt-get install" also result in some unneeded
> entries in the WWWOFFLE cache. I believe that this can be avoided if I
> disable my $HTTP_PROXY prior to invoking "apt-get".
> 
> Any undesirable side effects if I go down that path? 

You won't have a cached version of the file in case you need it again?

If you really don't want to have the file cached for some reason then
unsetting the http_proxy environment variable before running apt-get
will work and the file will not be cached.

If you decide that having a local cache of debian packages is useful
(for example if you have more than one computer to install them on)
then using WWWOFFLE to cache the files is a good idea.

-- 
Andrew.
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