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====== Change filetypes cached by Apt-Cacher ======

I've been learning how to use debian-installer's preseed functionality in order to automate some of the installations we do at Free IT Athens. Among other things, I wanted to set it to use [[http://packages.debian.org/apt-cacher|apt-cacher]], our caching proxy server for software, and to install some additional packages, including msttcorefonts. Msttcorefonts downloads each font as an exe file, which isn't in apt-cacher's whitelist of filetypes to accept. If you try, you'll receive a 403 error and the message // Sorry, not allowed to fetch that type of file//. Since apt-cacher is written in perl, this was an easy fix; I modified line 646 to read

<code perl>
 if ($filename =~ /(\.deb|\.rpm|\.dsc|\.tar\.gz|\.diff\.gz|\.udeb|\.exe)$/) {
</code>

{{tag>linux frita aptcacher}}


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blog/change_filetypes_cached_by_apt-cacher.txt · Last modified: 2008/03/09 19:31 by brian

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