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[Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:14:46 -0800
Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 12/17/2011 04:19 PM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset wrote:
> 
> > 2011/12/17 Gabriel Salles <gabrielpereca@xxxxxxxxx>
>  
> 
> >> Companies, universities, etc. will have a local repo or cache and
> >> only download the update once for thousands of machines. Even some
> >> home users do this if they have few machines.
> 
>  
> > Off topic, but just to know, can you point me on how to do that?
> 
> 
> Use any of the relevant packages for doing that, such as apt-mirror,
> apt-proxy or apt-cacher-ng .
> 
> There's an ancient tutorial on howtoforge that might still be relevant,
> if you need a tutorial (reading the docs that come with the package is
> better, IMO!).  http://www.howtoforge.com/local_debian_ubuntu_mirror
> 
That doc still works, or did 18 months ago.  Though I now use squid http://www.squid-cache.org/ as it just seems easier/simpler.

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Yorvyk