On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, Chris Samuel wrote:
Hi folks,
What do folks feel works well for them for a running a local apt-cache?
I want to avoid having to download apt packages for my various Kubuntu machines for speed rather than quota reasons.
nfs fs:/var/cache/apt/archives Unfortunately, you can't do anything in parallel because of lockfiles. Yes, this was an upgrade from apt-cacher, apt-cacher-ng, mrepo, and another one that I can't recall, and ilk. They all suffer from various problems related to cache coherency/invalidation etc. I even gave up on squid (for .deb storing) for reasons that I can't recall. For different arches, and to keep package versions around forever, and if ubuntu is anything like debian, be sure to comment out all the autoclean/clean stuff in /etc/cron-apt/action.d/3-download, and set in /etc/apt/apt.conf: APT::APT::Clean-Installed off; -- Tim Connors