better support for local security update proxies

[Trent Lloyd]

I know theres a couple alternatives, e.g. apt-cacher (im sure some of
the other people on the list could tell you what better ones there are)
the other alternative is just a squid proxy with a large object size cache.

Trent

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 05:48:48AM -0700, Jon Saints wrote:
> We are deploying more and more ubuntu machines at our
> University in Malawi.  Our internet connection is via
> satellite and is expensive so we are trying to be sure
> that ubuntu updates are done efficiently.
> 
> Currently we are using apt-proxy to accomplish this,
> but we are not finding it to be very robust (routinely
> kills connection and doesn't do well when multiple
> machines connect at same time).  
> 
> Its not just those of us behind lowband internet
> connections that would find improved support for local
> security proxies useful. I think any large scale
> deployment of Ubuntu would be interested as well.
> 
> Are there any development efforts within Ubuntu
> Community to improve support for local proxies for
> security updates that we might be able to get involved
> with? Or is improving apt-proxy the way to go?
> 
> Thanks for your thoughts.
> Jon
> 
> 
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