> > James Harper writes: > > > If the reason for installing Squid is for caching deb's then you'll be > > much better off with apt-cacher. > > I've had bad experiences with the two older apt-specific partial repo > caching tools (apt-cacher and another one, I forget the name); IIRC they > were vulnerable to injection from the LAN, and this would regularly > happen by accident if >1 distro was used (e.g. ubuntu and debian both > had foo-1.0-1 but with different checksums). >
Thanks for the tip. I've only ever used Debian but had thought about trying Ubuntu. > IIRC last time this came up, a new one had recently come out > (apt-cacher-ng?) which somebody said fixed all the problems. > I did see an apt-cacher-ng recently. I wonder if the repository can migrate... James _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
