Debian Mirror

[Michael Wheeler]

Hi All,

Every time I install debian on (laptop|vm|beaglebone|pi|smart watch|esp8266|rap2e|alix3d3) while at the space I always think of how much faster this could be with a debian mirror/cache, plus save some bandwidth.

Is debian popular enough in the space to warrant looking into setting up a debian mirror ?

Other thoughts - considering the amount of windows laptops maybe a windows update cache / WSUS would be good as well.

Kind regards,

Michael.

[Alastair Knowles]

Hi Michael.

I personally think it's a great idea. If you'd like suggestions, take a look at apt-cacher-ng. It's basically an http proxy but specialised for Linux package management. Also, it works very well with other Linux distros. I believe the default settings have examples for gentoo, arch, ubuntu, debian and either msys or cygwin...or something like that anyway. I've used it with Linux mint without much drama.

Best of luck,
Alastair Knowles

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[Toby Corkindale]

On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 at 14:06 Alastair Knowles <kno...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Michael.

I personally think it's a great idea. If you'd like suggestions, take a look at apt-cacher-ng. It's basically an http proxy but specialised for Linux package management. Also, it works very well with other Linux distros. I believe the default settings have examples for gentoo, arch, ubuntu, debian and either msys or cygwin...or something like that anyway. I've used it with Linux mint without much drama.

I find apt-cacher-ng to be woefully unreliable.

I reckon you're better off just installing a regular caching proxy server (eg. nginx, apache) with long cache durations, and then setting it as your proxy server just for apt.

But either way you'll speed up linux package installs/updates significantly, so it's worth doing something.

-Toby