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Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories

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On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 19:06:35 -0700
David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote:

> When I had several Debian machines in the past, I used approx(8) [2]. 
> It was good software -- KISS, properly documented, easy to set up, 
> worked efficiently, and never failed.
> 
> 
> But approx(8) had some operational features that apt-cacher-ng(8) [3] 
> seems to improve upon:
> 
> 1.  Each host needed its apt(8) [1] configuration to point at the 
> approx(8) server.

Apt-cacher-ng (hereafter acng) also requires a change in client apt
configurations. Put one line into apt.conf or a one-liner in
apt.conf.d. I use the latter, 02proxy:

Acquire::http::Proxy "http://aptcacherdeb.localdomain:3142";

There are further wrinkles for laptops and other traveling computers,
and for https only repos, which I will leave as an exercise for the
student.

> 
> 3.  I seem to recall that I was able to use approx(8) with non-Debian 
> repositories via creative configuration.

acng does support some non-deb repos. For more details, see
/etc/apt-cacher-ng/acng.conf.

I think I'll stay with acng.


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What do folks use to mirror repositories Sam <sam@email-scan.com> - 2022-04-15 13:20 +0200
  Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-04-15 13:40 +0200
    Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2022-04-15 14:30 +0200
    Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-04-16 04:10 +0200
      Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-04-16 06:20 +0200
        Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-04-19 03:10 +0200
          Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-04-19 05:10 +0200
          Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-04-19 07:30 +0200
            Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-19 18:10 +0200
              Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-04-19 19:00 +0200
                Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2022-04-19 19:10 +0200
                Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-04-20 01:50 +0200
          Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2022-04-19 20:20 +0200
  Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-04-15 14:30 +0200
  Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2022-04-15 17:20 +0200
  Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-15 18:40 +0200
  Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories Dieter Rohlfing <dr-erc@gmx.net> - 2022-04-16 11:30 +0200

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