Chris Samuel <[email protected]> writes:

> What do folks feel works well for them for a running a local apt-cache?

IME cachers fail in exciting ways, often security-related.
Allegedly apt-cacher-ng (mentioned elsethread) is better; it didn't
exist last time I used one.

I instead use debmirror, which mirrors the entire repo (or a subset
thereof) in advance, and then to clients it just looks like an ordinary
http:// or file:/// repo.

I routinely do PXE installs from it, both Ubuntu and Debian.  The only
problem I've had is that I'm mirroring from Internode (so it's
unmetered), and *Internode's* repo is routinely broken these days,
because they're using rsync instead of Debian's recommended ftpsync
script.

Oh, also obviously it downloads several hundred megabytes a day, which
is a downside.

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