Add Documentation for Chocolatey Proxy feeds

stevedennis

We haven't had any users ask for help on this; it's pretty straight-forward in ProGet, as the UI guides users to do this and even pre-populates the default URLs. But if you think there's some nonobvious things or issues you've seen, then a technical note would be great (like we have on Connectors for Debian Feeds).

I should note... we did not create a dedicated HOWTO guide for this use case (unlike, for example, HOWTO: Proxy Packages from NuGet.org in Visual Studio or CLI), mostly because we don't generally recommend it. Instead, we recommend internalizing the packages.

What do you think about editing this section to clarify that?

https://docs.inedo.com/docs/proget/feeds/chocolatey#internalizing-chocolatey-packages

Thanks,
Steve

steviecoaster

We need to be careful with content about internalizing. Our commercial Package Internalizer feature handles this automatically, so our "Set up a Proxy repository" needs to point to vendor-specific content on that topic.

We definitely recommend an embedded package; however, where everything needed is included in the compiled nupkg!

For our purposes, a technical note on what to click in the ProGet UI to get a user to the place to set up the Proxy feed is good enough! We just want a specific place in the vendor documentation we can point to from our own documentation on configuring a proxy repository.

We're going through the same exercise with other repo vendors as well :D

stevedennis

@steviecoaster sounds good, feel free to submit a PR with suggestions if you'd like anything to add. For us, we usually just point to connectors documentation, though the topic doesn't really come up with this feed

steviecoaster

Do you have a link to the repo to file said issue in?

stevedennis

@steviecoaster sure thing!

https://github.com/inedo/inedo-docs/tree/master/Content/proget/feeds/chocolatey#.md

There's a "hidden in plain sight" GitHub link under the heading of each article, mostly for us :)

Figured a PR/example would be easier than back-forth on forums. Thanks!

steviecoaster

Ha! You are right. I had never once seen the octocat until you pointed it out :D

I'll get something drafted up. Thanks!

imm0rtalsupp0rt

@stevedennis Hello! I've put up a PR for the documentation addition:

https://github.com/Inedo/inedo-docs/pull/590

I wanted to talk to someone about getting a change made to how the Chocolatey Community Repository is referred. When selecting it as a proxy feed, it's currently labeled "Free/Open Source Chocolatey Packages" as seen in the picture below:

We would like this instead to read "Chocolatey Community Packages".

Are you able to use this post as a starting point for this discussion, or is there a better place for me to raise this? Any help is greatly appreciated!

atripp

Hi @imm0rtalsupp0rt ,

Great, thanks! I'll share the pull request with our technical writing members; they handle the HOWTO type articles and may want to add more screenshots, etc. But that intro paragraph will really help them.

Changing the texts is trivial; it'll be implemented via PG-3278 in the next maintenance release of ProGet 2026. FYI I also changed description too:

Chocolatey Community Packages

Cache and filter packages from the Chocolatey Community Repository (CCR).

Cheers,
Alana

imm0rtalsupp0rt

@atripp Thank you so much!

apxltd

Hi @imm0rtalsupp0rt ,

We've published a version of the article now:
https://docs.inedo.com/docs/proget/feeds/chocolatey/howto-chocolatey-proxyccr

Let us know your thoughts or freel free to submit a PR should have have any suggestions!

Thanks,

Alex