On 30 April 2014 18:46, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Toby Corkindale <toby@dryft.net> writes:
Hi, Linux distros using the apt package management system tend to cache downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives/
If you have many very similar machines set up, then you'll almost certainly have a HTTP proxy cache setup for them to retrieve packages through, to reduce huge duplication of downloads.
This essentially obsoletes the /var/cache/apt/archives, though. And when you're running dozens of virtual machines, it'd be nice to avoid storing all these duplicate files.
What's the right way to disable it? I see I can adjust the max size and age via the APT::Archives::Max{Age,Size} parameters, but what about just turning it off altogether?
PS: if you use NFS instead of HTTP (thus, file: in sources.list), it won't cache locally.
I'm not sure how that helps, unless I'm maintaining an actual debian mirror locally? (As opposed to just caching the much smaller subset of files that my servers use)