Talking about automating apt-get, yum and the like, is there a way to cache freq...

unethical_ban · on March 11, 2014

apt-mirror creates a full repository, and there's a tool called deb-squid-proxy or some combo of those words that lazily caches packages.

kaivi · on March 11, 2014

Oh thank you, not even sure how I missed it.

jcastro · on March 11, 2014

The server piece is "squid-deb-proxy" and for the clients it's "squid-deb-proxy-client".

ema_rocca · on March 11, 2014

You might want to give a try to apt-cacher-ng.

apt-get install apt-cacher-ng

cdjk · on March 11, 2014

I use this - and it's great with my slow internet connection. It's totally transparent, and I only notice it if my vm running it is down.

And despite the name, newer versions work with yum too (although I found I had to disable the fastest mirror yum plugin to get reliable caching).