Being a Debian-newbie I am fascinated of apt and want to use it on both Debian-boxes in my home-net. I access a german ftp-site and it works quite well. (Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list in addition to Todd Suess´ recently published one: deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists proposed-updates/ )
What is a useful configuration in apt.conf and/or anywhere else to avoid downloading packages twice if I run apt-get first on one and then on the other box ? I´ve tried the ftp::proxy section but did not succeed. Can squid act as ftp-proxy-cache at all? If yes: how do I have to write the ftp::proxy-section of apt.conf ? Or is there a more suitable configuration you recommend -- using apt-cache and nfs for example? Regards Peter