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Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching



On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 12:57 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:04:32 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> said: 
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:11:44AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> >> Here's an idea I just had about apt-proxy/apt-cacher NG. Maybe this
> >> could be interesting, maybe it's just crap. Your call.
> 
> > My position on special-purpose proxy caches for APT is that
> > general-purpose proxy caches (like squid) seem to work fine for me.
> > What advantages do they have for others?
> 
> 	Optimization?  With a special purpose proxies I can control
>  how the cache gets updated. For example, I want to keep two versions
>  of packages I use around -- the current, and the previous one, no
>  matter how old. Hard to do with Squid, which does not know these two
>  files ar4e different versi9ons of the same package. 

It can be taught that. A custom cache replacement policy, for one cache
dir, for example.

Rob

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