[tor-talk] force apt-get & yum updates through tor? - don't use polipo

[grarpamp]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:37 PM, coderman <coderman at gmail.com> wrote:
> don't use polipo, it has trouble with very large downloads.

Ack, and with handling parallel loads, as in it leaves tcp states
open and locks itself up. Maybe that's been fixed since I last
tested/commented/reported, don't know. Development seems
to have rebooted a bit so if someone needs a fix they might have
luck. Back then I chose below...

> better to use a different type of proxy like privoxy or torsocks or
> python socks wrapper or transparent Tor gateway or ...