11 May
2013
11 May
'13
10 a.m.
James Harper writes:
If the reason for installing Squid is for caching deb's then you'll be much better off with apt-cacher.
I've had bad experiences with the two older apt-specific partial repo caching tools (apt-cacher and another one, I forget the name); IIRC they were vulnerable to injection from the LAN, and this would regularly happen by accident if >1 distro was used (e.g. ubuntu and debian both had foo-1.0-1 but with different checksums).
Thanks for the tip. I've only ever used Debian but had thought about trying Ubuntu.
IIRC last time this came up, a new one had recently come out (apt-cacher-ng?) which somebody said fixed all the problems.
I did see an apt-cacher-ng recently. I wonder if the repository can migrate... James