Re: apt-get and SOCKS

2008-03-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Vincent Danjean [Mon, Mar 17 2008, 12:22:11PM]: > Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Patrick Matthäi] > >> is there any reason to encrypt your traffic on downloading packages? > >> I think this will only cause more traffic and cpu overhead on the > >> mirrors instead of help anything. > >

Re: apt-get and SOCKS

2008-03-17 Thread Vincent Danjean
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Patrick Matthäi] >> is there any reason to encrypt your traffic on downloading packages? >> I think this will only cause more traffic and cpu overhead on the >> mirrors instead of help anything. > > I took is request to ask for SOCKS support, not encrypted connections

Re: apt-get and SOCKS

2008-03-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Patrick Matthäi] > is there any reason to encrypt your traffic on downloading packages? > I think this will only cause more traffic and cpu overhead on the > mirrors instead of help anything. I took is request to ask for SOCKS support, not encrypted connections. I know that I've used the SOCKS f

Re: apt-get and SOCKS

2008-03-16 Thread Patrick Matthäi
xHemi schrieb: > This might not be the correct place but here goes.. > > apt-get provides http_proxy and ftp_proxy support but why not SOCKS? > I have no experience with SOCKS other than that I use it daily in conjunction > with firefox and ssh. I think it is a feature which could be of use > to o

Re: apt-get and SOCKS!

2008-02-28 Thread William Pitcock
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 16:53 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:39:06AM +0100, Edward Tjornhammar wrote: > > apt-get provides http_proxy and ftp_proxy support but why not SOCKS? > > I have no experience with SOCKS other than that I use it daily in > > conjunction with firefox and

Re: apt-get and SOCKS!

2008-02-28 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:39:06AM +0100, Edward Tjornhammar wrote: > apt-get provides http_proxy and ftp_proxy support but why not SOCKS? > I have no experience with SOCKS other than that I use it daily in > conjunction with firefox and ssh. I think it is a feature which could > be of use to other

apt-get and SOCKS

2008-02-28 Thread xHemi
This might not be the correct place but here goes.. apt-get provides http_proxy and ftp_proxy support but why not SOCKS? I have no experience with SOCKS other than that I use it daily in conjunction with firefox and ssh. I think it is a feature which could be of use to others as well since it woul

Re: apt-get and SOCKS!

2008-02-28 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Edward, * Edward Tjornhammar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-28 12:26]: > This might not be the correct place but here goes.. > > apt-get provides http_proxy and ftp_proxy support but why not SOCKS? [...] No idea but nothing prevents you from using for example tsocks. Kind regards Nico -- Nico

apt-get and SOCKS!

2008-02-28 Thread Edward Tjornhammar
This might not be the correct place but here goes.. apt-get provides http_proxy and ftp_proxy support but why not SOCKS? I have no experience with SOCKS other than that I use it daily in conjunction with firefox and ssh. I think it is a feature which could be of use to others as well since it wou