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ema_rocca on March 11, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Puppet, Chef, Ansible aren't good enough

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).

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