Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org> writes:
What do folks feel works well for them for a running a local apt-cache?
IME cachers fail in exciting ways, often security-related. Allegedly apt-cacher-ng (mentioned elsethread) is better; it didn't exist last time I used one. I instead use debmirror, which mirrors the entire repo (or a subset thereof) in advance, and then to clients it just looks like an ordinary http:// or file:/// repo. I routinely do PXE installs from it, both Ubuntu and Debian. The only problem I've had is that I'm mirroring from Internode (so it's unmetered), and *Internode's* repo is routinely broken these days, because they're using rsync instead of Debian's recommended ftpsync script. Oh, also obviously it downloads several hundred megabytes a day, which is a downside.