On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 18:08:31 +0200 Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@hungry.com> wrote:
> [Riley Baird] > > This isn't a permanent solution, but it's kind of a workaround. > > apt-file doesn't seem to allow the plus sign to be in the protocol > > name, I've changed it to change it to torhttp. After that, add the > > following line to your /etc/apt/apt-file.conf and it should work. Be > > careful, though, because torify isn't perfect, and I don't know if it > > preserves anonymity when used with diffindex-download. > > Thank you for this tip. While I guess apt-file can be adjusted to > accept the plus sign in protocol names (or apt-transport-tor can be > changed to use another protocol name), isn't it better to change > apt-file to use the apt transport method in /usr/lib/apt/methods/, and > thus download the exact same way apt is? Why isn't apt-file already > using those methods for downloading? Good point. It would be much better for apt-file to use the apt transport methods in /usr/lib/apt/methods/ so that there doesn't need to be a new bug opened every time that there's a new method.
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