Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 22:15:36 -0600
Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:

...

> Apt-cacher-ng (hereafter acng) also requires a change in client apt
> configurations. Put one line into apt.conf or a one-liner in
> apt.conf.d. I use the latter, 02proxy:
> 
> Acquire::http::Proxy "http://aptcacherdeb.localdomain:3142";;
> 
> There are further wrinkles for laptops and other traveling computers,
> and for https only repos, which I will leave as an exercise for the
> student.

Yes. I use apt-cacher-ng, but having to manually add a workaround for
every SSL-only repository I use is getting rather annoying:

https://wiki.debian.org/AptCacherNg#HTTPS_repositories
https://blog.packagecloud.io/using-apt-cacher-ng-with-ssl-tls/

One ends up with an ugly and not-very readable line like this:

PassThroughPattern: (winehq\.org|xpra\.org|vscodium\.com|packagecloud\.io):443$

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Celejar