Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories

[Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org>]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 01:36:43PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 07:03:14AM -0400, Sam wrote:
> > That's pretty much it. I want to mirror all my updates to a single server on
> > my LAN and have everything on my LAN apt update from it. This seems more
> > efficient than having everyone download their own copies.
> 
> If all you are looking for is efficiency, you might also consider an
> apt cache (I'm pretty happy with apt-cacher-ng). It is pretty low
> maintenance, as it decides itself when to throw out older entries.
> 
> The big plus for me is that it can cache across multiple repos (I
> sometimes build "old" images from archives.d.o for some legacy
> hardware hidden away in some customer's closets, don't ask ;-)
> It just does so silently. Whenever the package isn't there, it
> fetches it, next time it's served from the cache.
> 
> Another nice point is that you can just keep your /etc/apt/sources.list
> as it should be (with the "real" repo addresses out there) and the
> apt cache works as a proxy. An entry in (e.g.) /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02cache
> like so:
> 
>   # /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02cache
>   #
>   Acquire::http::proxy "http://localhost:3142";
> 
> (or whatever your apt cache's URL is) suffices -- something you can
> easily disable or remove should you ever "release" your pet machine
> "into the wild" :-)
> 
I very much agree with Tomas.  After having tried a few different
solutions years ago, I have settled on this one and I am convinced it is
still the best available solution to this particular problem.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez