Bug#151109: ITP: apt-cacher -- Caching proxy system for Debian software packages
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:25:53AM +1000, Jonathan Oxer wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Version: N/A; reported 2002-06-27
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name : apt-cacher
> Version : 0.5
> Upstream Author : Nick Andrew <nick@tull.net>, Jonathan Oxer <jon@ivt.com.au>
> * URL : http://www.apt-cacher.org/
> * License : GPL
> Description : Caching proxy system for Debian software packages
>
> Apt-cacher provides local caching of .deb packages for installation on
> multiple machines. One machine running apt-cacher acts as a proxy for all
> other Debian machines on the network, which use Apt as normal to perform
> installation but send all package requests to the proxy.
>
> Apt-cacher runs as a CGI under Apache, which makes it simpler than other
> package caching systems which are more self-contained.
Can you summarise the advantages this system has over simply using a
conventional web proxy like squid, with appropriate settings? I have
used this successfully in the past to minimise download time over a
slow link...
Jules
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