On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 19:06:35 -0700 David Christensen <dpchr...@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. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/