Source: approx Section: admin Priority: optional Maintainer: Eric Cooper Uploaders: Ralf Treinen Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10), dh-ocaml, libnethttpd-ocaml-dev (>= 3), libounit-ocaml-dev, libpcre-ocaml-dev, libsha-ocaml-dev, ocamlbuild, ocaml-nox (>= 4.02) Standards-Version: 4.0.0 Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/approx.git Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/approx.git Homepage: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/approx.git Package: approx Architecture: any Depends: ${ocaml:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, adduser, bzip2, curl, rsyslog | system-log-daemon, xz-utils Suggests: libconfig-model-approx-perl Description: caching proxy server for Debian archive files Approx is an HTTP-based proxy server for Debian-style package archives. It fetches files from remote repositories on demand, and caches them for local use. . Approx saves time and network bandwidth if you need to install or upgrade .deb packages for a number of machines on a local network. Each package is downloaded from a remote site only once, regardless of how many local clients install it. The approx cache typically requires a few gigabytes of disk space. . Approx also simplifies the administration of client machines: repository locations need only be changed in approx's configuration file, not in every client's /etc/apt/sources.list file. . Approx can be used as a replacement for apt-proxy, with no need to modify clients' /etc/apt/sources.list files, or as an alternative to apt-cacher.