Moin Helge!
Helge Kreutzmann schrieb am Montag, den 08. August 2005:
> Hello Eduard,
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 09:26:23PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > OTOH I am biassed. In the meantime I completed my apt-cacher package
> > with the features and I that is what I recommend now instead of
> > apt-proxy. It is simplier by designer, does not provide all the
> > corner-case features but should be more robust.
>
> is it possible to merge all files in one tree (i.e., get at least the
> all.debs only once, either from alioth for amd64, or form debian.org
> for the other archs (i386, ppc, alpha))?
For apt-proxy: no idea
For apt-cacher: it uses a flat structure, so yes.
Its weakness is also handling of different versions of a package file
having the same name. This should not happen with official mirrors and
sane off-tree maintainers care about avoiding collisions... but stupid
evil local users could try to poison the cache downloading faked package
files if the mirror access is not limited in apt-cacher's configuration
;-) OTOH they would have only limited success and they should expect
punishment from the server admin...
Regards,
Eduard.
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