On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 01:32:55AM -0600, Sven Semmler wrote:
> I have several template VMs that are based on the same distro but with
> different software installed.
> 
> tpl-ubu-18-apps  ... for offline / disposable qubes ... lots of apps 
> tpl-ubu-18-web   ... for online / disposable qubes ... just firefox
> tpl-ubu-18-email ... fetchmail / postfix / mutt
> tpl-ubu-18-base  ... just the basics for all kinds of qubes
> 
> Even though those templates have all their special purposes and contents
> there are lots and lots of packages that are installed in all of them.
> 
> If I now run my update scripts, each of those will download identical
> packages. All of them will do so through the Qubes UpdateProxy
> (tinyproxy?).
> 
> Is there a way for me to configure this proxy to hold a very short term
> cache? Something like 30 minutes? Meaning if an identical download was
> requested within the last 30 minutes a locally cached copy is served
> instead of downloading it again from a remote server. 
> 

No. There's a patch that *would* allow caching, but tinyproxy natively
is not caching proxy.
Drop in apt-cacher-ng in its place to get lightweight caching proxy.

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