[Bug 191378] Re: Main Inclusion Report for apt-cacher

[Martin Jackson]

I don't think acng is config-file compatible with apt-cacher.  acng has
several interesting features (like backend redundancy) that apt-cacher
doesn't.  Since I first posted on this bug, there have been at least one
upstream release of each.

I've been using squid and apt-cacher and I have to say they both fit the
bill.  For vm building, an apt-cacher or acng solution would be
preferable, since in squid you generally want files to drop out of cache
when not used, and files in main will drop relatively quickly if not
refreshed.  On the other hand, squid works really well for keeping
systems up to date once you've built them, and a lot of things that make
life easier running systems (like seeing changelogs in update manager).
Squid tends to handle things like do-release-upgrade better, though apt-
cacher now has support for that.

There's the possibility of a hybrid solution as well, using jesred (a
redirector for squid) that redirects ubuntu archive requests to apt-
cacher or one of its siblings:

http://www.porcheron.info/bandwith-optimization-squid-apt-cacher-and-
jesred/

This could be adapted to acng trivially.

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