local deb mirror

[Gabriel Dragffy]

Serg B. wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Can anybody suggest any pros and cons of having a local (private) deb
> mirror for a small home (~6 machines) network?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
  Why not have the benefits of a local mirror without the disadvantage 
of storing 200GB of data?
Use apt-proxy or apt-cacher, perfectly suited for this situation. Only 
the files that are needed by a machine are downloaded, and then they are 
stored. Then all the files only get downloaded once. I found that after 
a year my apt-cacher cache had only grown to less than 2gb. Perfect!