From 7e104426ee17a34eded898b2b67dd40e95975054 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vasudev Kamath <vasudev@copyninja.info>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 17:17:23 +0530
Subject: Update after comments from Jonas.

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 content/devops/approx_to_acng.rst | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

(limited to 'content/devops/approx_to_acng.rst')

diff --git a/content/devops/approx_to_acng.rst b/content/devops/approx_to_acng.rst
index b517a20..b5e7d02 100644
--- a/content/devops/approx_to_acng.rst
+++ b/content/devops/approx_to_acng.rst
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ some listed from the apt-cacher-ng manual.
 
 * use of TLS/SSL repositories (may be possible with approx but I'm notsure how to do it)
 * Access control of who can access caching server
-* Integration with debdelta (I've not tried)
+* Integration with debdelta (I've not tried, approx also supports
+  debdelta)
 * Avoiding use of apt-cacher-ng for some hosts
 * Avoiding caching of some file types
 * Partial mirroring for offline usage.
@@ -58,7 +59,9 @@ Transition
 ==========
 
 Transition from approx to apt-cacher-ng was smoother than I
-expected. I had to change my /etc/apt/sources.list to use the actual
+expected. There are 2 approaches you can use one is explicit routing
+another is transparent routing. I prefer transparent routing and I
+only had to change my /etc/apt/sources.list to use the actual
 repository URL.
 
 .. code-block:: sources.list
@@ -70,23 +73,20 @@ repository URL.
    deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian experimental main
 
 
-I had to add a *01proxy* configuration file to */etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*
-with following content.
+After above change I had to add a *01proxy* configuration file to
+*/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/* with following content.
 
 .. code-block:: conf
 
    Acquire::http::Proxy "http://localhost:3142/"
 
-And thats it apt will transparently use apt-cacher-ng as caching proxy
-server. It is also possible to specify proxy in the sources.list
-directly in below format
+I use explicit routing only when using apt-cacher-ng with pbuilder and
+debootstrap. Following snippet shows explicit routing through */etc/apt/sources.list*.
 
 .. code-block:: sources.list
 
    deb http://localhost:3142/deb.debian.org/debian unstable main
 
-But it looks ugly to me so I preferred the transparent proxy approach.
-
 Usage with pbuilder and friends
 -------------------------------
 
@@ -111,7 +111,19 @@ Conclusion
 I've now completed full transition of my work flow to apt-cacher-ng
 and purged approx and its cache.
 
-Though it works fine I feel that there will be 2 caches created when
-you use transparent and explicit proxy using localhost:3142 URL. I'm
-sure it is possible to configure this to avoid duplication, but I've
-not yet figured it. If you know how to fix this do let me know.
+.. role:: strike
+   :class: strike
+
+.. container:: strike
+
+   Though it works fine I feel that there will be 2 caches created when
+   you use transparent and explicit proxy using localhost:3142 URL. I'm
+   sure it is possible to configure this to avoid duplication, but I've
+   not yet figured it. If you know how to fix this do let me know.
+
+Update
+------   
+
+Jonas told me that its not 2 caches but 2 routing one for transparent
+routing and another for explicit routing. So I guess there is nothing
+here to fix :-).
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