Re: [Hampshire] Caching Debian and CentOS packages

2011-07-03 Thread Andy Smith 
Hi Stephen,

On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 05:21:06AM +0100, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
> For Debian/Ubuntu we use apt-cacher-ng, and for CentOS we maintain
> a local mirror.  Looking at it again for a few new clients, I'm
> leaning towards simply having a Squid/mod_cache setup that caters
> for both Debian/Ubuntu and CentOS/Redhat, rather than the (rather
> flakey) apt-cacher(-ng) that needs to be restarted once a month,
> and the rather primitive mirroring of the entire repo.
> 
> Has anyone got any experiences or ideas to contribute?

I currently use apt-cacher. Apart from having to have one for Debian
and another for Ubuntu I haven't really had any issues with it. I'm
also just mirroring CentOS base for that side of things.

So no, sorry, I haven't got any new ideas to contribute I'm afraid
but I am interested in how you get on with squid.

Cheers,
Andy

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[Hampshire] Caching Debian and CentOS packages

2011-07-03 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith 
Hello,

Inspired by an interesting article I read in which someone wrote a
very basic RPM cacher in Perl, I've revisited the way we do this
ourselves.  For Debian/Ubuntu we use apt-cacher-ng, and for CentOS we
maintain a local mirror.  Looking at it again for a few new clients,
I'm leaning towards simply having a Squid/mod_cache setup that caters
for both Debian/Ubuntu and CentOS/Redhat, rather than the (rather
flakey) apt-cacher(-ng) that needs to be restarted once a month, and
the rather primitive mirroring of the entire repo.

Has anyone got any experiences or ideas to contribute?

S.

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