On 17/12/10 17:16, Alan Lord (News) wrote: > On 17/12/10 17:01, Mark Fraser wrote: >> I'm thinking about building a server too and one of the things I wanted >> it for was a caching apt proxy. There seem to be a few ways of doing >> this though, which is the best of the lot? > http://askubuntu.com/questions/3503/best-way-to-cache-apt-downloads-on-a-lan > > In theory this is great as it requires zero configuration on the > clients. I have this set up at home but am not sure if it is actually > working properly right now. I keep meaning to look into this but fail to > find the time usually as there are more pressing demands from SWMBO. > > Al > >
Another option with a nice write up from Dustin Kirkland is approx. I've been running it since his post with no probs and minimal configuration http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2010/11/yet-another-ubuntu-archive-proxy.html Cheers Dan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/