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Re: Question about proxy servers for debian packages



Hello all,

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 03:17:01PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I see in the aptitude package list three packages that are proxy
> servers specifically designed to proxy the package files from a Debian
> repository/mirror. There may be more than three. I didn't work very
> [...]
> differ? Do the differences matter?  And, are there any other proxy
> servers for packages that I haven't found, and are worth while?

apt-cacher-ng and probably any non-specific/general proxy server like
for example squid.

Following up to an article in LWN this topic was recently raised on
debian-mentors, please see the thread starting at
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2009/03/msg00210.html>
and the links contained therein for further details.

In my view nowadays approx and apt-cacher-ng seem to be the most
recommendable solutions among the special-purpose servers (with the
latter apparently having some problems in anything older than Squeeze).

HTH,
Flo

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