On Sat, 11 May 2013 James and Trent wrote,
>> >> 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 I only upgrade testing when I see significant changes on packages that interest me. I compile my own kernel and I have compiled Mesa and Radeon drivers to the latest myself when required. I found upgrading on a regular basis just cost a lot line time I did not have with no __apparent__ advantage. For the packages, I have set up apt not to erase downloaded packages, these are then moved using apt-move to my repository. The only slight problem with doing this is that for some reason latter installers do __NOT__ get on well with the local store. This is not a real issue with me anyway as I just use the original 6.0.4 install CD. Lindsay _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
