Good morning all,

For quite some time I've tried apt-cacher and settled on apt-proxy for a few
years, for caching deb packages on a LAN to reduce internet bandwidth usage
and to speed up apt-get processes.

Since apt-proxy has moved to using the twisted framework, I've found that
apt-proxy's suckiness ranges from "oh I'm going to take 6 hours to complete
your apt-get dist-upgrade because I'm busy doing something in the
background" to "I don't know what to do so I'll throw you a random HTTP
error", which annoys me to no end.

apt-cacher is no better, as it munges each debs it downloads with some HTTP
headers.

So, has anyone come across something like apt-proxy or apt-cacher, but it
doesn't suck? (Yes I know it sounds like a big ask) :)

Regards,
Bill
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