Apt-cacher-ng: Cache packages on a local mirror instead of redownloading them
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I set this up a few weeks ago since all my systems, except one Gentoo server, run Debian and I am very happy with it. Should work on all distros using apt (Mint, Ubuntu, etc.) and I've read that dnf may work with it as well.
Just like Nix cache…. but worse.
Yeah, I get that. I was daily driving Guix for quite a long time and really enjoyed it. As I understand it shares a lot of code with Nix. It's just been a bit hard to integrate with a lot of the software I run due to it not being compatible with the traditional filesystem hierarchy. This is obviously a selling point for Nix/Guix as it frees it to try new ideas, but makes it harder for me to run my music production software for example, which I can't run in flatpak officially and since it Just Works™ on Debian, I'm happy with it. Maybe I'll get into it sometime again as the community seems to have grown a lot, and I've looked into running Nix on top of my Debian install.
I daily drive NixOS and often have similar issues with FHS-style software even with flatpac so I completely understand.
So, my system for years has been a squid proxy jail with plenty of disk space, works great so far.
I can see where this might be better, but squid solves a few of my issues including limiting outbound connections for most of my apps to the ones I know they need.
Been using this with my debian machines for years. I have VMs spanning versions 8-10 but set it up when Wheezy was still prominent and it's always worked well.
Oh I've been looking for something like this! Thanks for sharing :D
Or just use debmirror.