Subject: Will 1.1 have a http proxy?

From: [email-masked] (Martin Schulze)
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 96 14:02 MET DST

Good day folks,

I would like Debian 1.1 to have a http proxy.  We would be the only
Linux distribution that comes ready with a proxy.

I have packaged Harvest Cached but never released it.  It is ready for
upload, although I would check it again.

Harvest Cached is obsolete because it is now commercial software, the
free version is called squid.  One or two people are working on
packaging this guy.  What is the current state of it?  I haven't seen
an announcement yet.

If the squid package is not ready yet, I would like to upload the
cached first and then let it be replaced by squid.

Thanks for the audience,

	Joey

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From: Soren Juul Moller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 08:49:21 +0200 (MET DST)

> Linux distribution that comes ready with a proxy.

You can use cern-httpd as a proxy-server.

Søren
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From: Sven Rudolph <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 11:20:45 +0200

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Martin Schulze) writes:

> packaging this guy.  What is the current state of it? 

> I haven't seen an announcement yet.

True, unfortunately.

I don't use squid on Linux anymore, so I hoped Craig Sanders
<[email-masked]> will release a package. AFAIK he even uses squid on
Debian Linux, unfortunately he seems to be quite busy.

I uploaded my latest diff to ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de:/pub/people/sr1

(squid-1.0.beta16 is said to be quite stable, so it might be a good
candidate for packaging.)

	Sven
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From: Craig Sanders <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 12:12:43 +1000 (EST)

> Debian Linux, unfortunately he seems to be quite busy.

yeah, and likely to get busier from now on :-(

Good news, though, is that i finally released squid.  version 1.0.beta16

Came up with a reasonable scheme for avoiding having to hack the source
Makefile.in files too much - I added stuff to debian.rules to call
'Configure' with appropriate arguments, created a debian squid.conf to
set the log file paths (which couldn't be set in the source without
major hacking - I wanted to keep my diffs as small as possible) and
also copied the install rule from src/Makefile and edited it to use
./debian-tmp.  Should be fairly easy to maintain now.

For the next release I'll do some stuff in postinst to ask whether
cachemgr.cgi should be installed in the cgi-bin directory.  I'll
probably just make a sym link from /var/web/cgi-bin/cachemgr.cgi to
/usr/lib/squid/cachemgr.cgi, so later upgrades of cachemgr.cgi should be
transparent.  Currently it is up to the sysadmin to read the docs and
install it in cgi-bin manually...

> I uploaded my latest diff to ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de:/pub/people/sr1

BTW, thanks for those diffs you sent me a few weeks ago - i used them to
learn how to do {pre,post} scripts and how to properly do an update-rc
(it's nearly always easier to look at a sample than it is to figure it
out from the docs).

> candidate for packaging.)

Uploaded to master last night.

Been running it here for over a day now...seems as stable as beta7 which
I had been running for over a month.

Craig