better support for local security update proxies

[Hervé Fache]

apt-cacher suffers from the same kind of problem: when two clients are
downloading the same new file, I sometimes end up with a corrupted
file (bug 56336).

On 8/10/06, Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st> wrote:
> 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.
>
> > 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).