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Author: Adam Borowski
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Caching binary .deb packages
On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 02:08:27PM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote:
> I've been messing around with building a live image and notice that it
> looks like there are a lot of different mirrors getting called into
> play. I was expecting the same mirrors to be used each time so I could
> populate my local cache on the first try and then use that cache on
> subsequent builds. Is there any efficient way to cache everything I
> access on the first try? I'm using squid3 right now but should I be
> using apt-cacher or apt-cacher-ng instead?


apt-cacher-ng works a great deal better than squid. It knows about the same
file on different mirrors being supposed to be the same, checksums, rdiff
apt indices, expires files not based on time but on them disappearing from
indices, etc.

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