Approx Redirector

This simple Python 3 script does redirect all entries in your sources.list and sources.list.d files to a given approx instance. It redirects all entries cached by the approx server but does not change uncached repositories.

Features

• Looks up cacheable repositories
• Supports ≈99.9 % of all approx configurations out there (except approx forcing https)
• Verboses changes if requested
• Can rewrite sources files if run as root
• Does backup old sources files for easy restoring

ToDo

• Support https for approx
• Implement '--mirror' mode

Usage

• Obviously requires a Debian-based system
• Requires python3 and python3-request to be installed

Assuming approx is the hostname of the approx cache you want to use. You can use an IP address instead. You can append a port by using approx:9999. By default http:// will be used but you can specify https as protocol, too: https://approx (not supported yet).

./redirect.py -v approx

The script will check which entries can be redirected and report these to stdout. If you want to approve these changes, run as root:

./redirect.py -vc approx

Now your system will use the approx cache. The old entries are commented out.

Contribute

Feel free to contribute to this project. Please follow the common style guide for Python.

License

This project is licensed under MIT.