squid-deb-proxy on client side unable to get packages from the server

Question

I am having 2 laptops on one of them I did a do-release-upgrade and it took near about 10 hours to upgrade to 12.04

now I want to upgrade second laptop also so I used following thread

Best way to cache apt downloads on a LAN?

I installed on the laptop (which was upgraded to 12.04 to be used as caching server so that packages are not downloaded again)

sudo apt-get install squid-deb-proxy avahi-utils

started the service

 sudo start squid-deb-proxy

and cp /var/cache/apt/archives/* /var/cache/squid-deb-proxy/

on the client I installed

sudo apt-get install squid-deb-proxy-client

now on the client I do a sudo do-release-upgrade

but it fails to get any kind of upgrade from the deb-proxy-server and rather connects to internet and this is taking 8-10 hours of time for upgrade process. This is verified by the logs on server which mention

1358365800.075    337 192.168.1.3 TCP_MISS/304 282 GET http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 - DIRECT/91.189.88.33 -
1358365800.119    338 192.168.1.3 TCP_MISS/304 360 GET http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/multiverse/source/Sources.bz2 - DIRECT/91.189.91.15 -

TCP_MISS which should be rather TCP_HIT so the squid-deb-proxy server is not working properly.Here what should I do?

Answer 1

You can't just copy debs into the squid-deb-proxy directory as those are stored as squid objects, so that probably won't work.

• How to add packages to a squid-deb-proxy cache?

Unfortunately I don't think there's a way you can do this unless you would have install squid-deb-proxy server and client on your laptop before it was upgraded, so it could have cached the debs prior to the upgrade on the first laptop.