Pass through to the Community Repository?

[ferventcoder]

Allow optional feature to pass through from packages on the community repository. When a package is installed with pass through, a copy of the package will be stored on the local Chocolatey.Server.

NuGet/NuGetGallery#3004

Also related to #17.

[ferventcoder]

This is similar to Proxy repositories that you see with ProGet, Nexus, MyGet, and Artifactory.

[unquietwiki]

Okay @ferventcoder , thinking about how this would work...

• I assume we'd want a flag to enable / disable this behavior; as well as to update where the current upstream Chocolatey repo is.
• If there are any plans / tickets that involve having simple-server run standalone (say as a .NET Core 2.0 Kestrel app), then the settings would have to be command-line, or in an INI / YAML / XML file.
• Maybe another flag to determine when to overwrite a local package; or to exclude certain packages from being overwritten (I made my own Windows runtime packages; still need to figure out how to get fixes applied upstream for that sort of thing).
• If the server is acting as a choco-client, then obviously it'll need to know about upstream proxies. This seems totally "meta": but if the server is able to access upstream, but the clients not, then it works?

[RobBiddle]

This issue has been open for nearly 5 years. Any chance someone is still working on this? 🤞

[unquietwiki]

@RobBiddle I got laid off that same week I posted my last answer, so I apologize for disappearing. None of the environments I've worked on since have needed this, but one or two could've definitely benefited. I can't speak to what @ferventcoder would be dealing with on their end, aside from the announcements I see on the main page.

[TheCakeIsNaOH]

This project has not had major development work since about the time this issue was opened, and it is not currently recommended for organizations in most cases. https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/guides/organizations/set-up-chocolatey-server#summary

I would definitely suggest checking out Sonatype Nexus, since it has the proxy repository functionality which the same thing as this feature request. Using the nexus-repository package from the Community Repository makes Nexus pretty simple to set up. There is also a video about how to set it up to proxy/pass through the Community Repository: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UehkG1VHtz0

[gep13]

I agree with @TheCakeIsNaOH here. There are no plans to actively work on this within the Chocolatey Team. If a community member wants to pick this up we may be able to assist, but that would be all that could be offered.

As such, I am going to close off this issue. If anyone is interested, feel free to reply to this issue and we can discuss further.