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Revision as of 22:39, 25 April 2014

What is it?

Proxy server for Debian / Ubuntu packages.

Why

Saves these packages locally and serves them to APT clients, as during upgrades and such, in order to conserve upstream bandwidth.

Where

FCS Location will vary.

How

We're spoiled for choice:

  1. apt-cacher
  2. apt-cacher-ng
  3. squid with squid-deb-proxy
  4. debtorrent (yeah, right)