Re: apt-proxy, apt-cacher & approx
On Mon, September 22, 2008 08:11, Kel Modderman wrote:
> On Monday 22 September 2008 15:20:20 Cameron Dale wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> We've been using apt-proxy for about a year, and then found it quite
>>> buggy. So we moved to using apt-cacher. Now we have loads of problems
>>> with apt-cacher as well (like currently, a recurring tzdata size
>>> mismatch error). I was wondering if approx is any better than the
>>> other two. Did any of you try?
>>
>> I have also experienced similar problems with both apt-proxy and
>> -cacher. I am now using approx, and I can report no errors with it at
>> all. It may be slightly slower, but that could be my imagination. I would
>> definitely recommend approx.
>
> I agree, approx has served myself well for quite some time.
I had some caching issues with approx in etch. When I upgraded to the
version from lenny in backports.org, that trouble went away and it runs
smoothly.
Just as a note there seems to be now a fourth alternative: apt-cacher-ng...
Thijs
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