[ubuntu-uk] What's the best...

[Dan Fish]

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