I just installed apt cacher ng for catching my apt upgrade packages and saw a huge time improvement even though I have a good internet connection. It act as a proxy and caches the response packages.

Do you run something similar? Or maybe even run a local repo mirror? Warning, they are really big so I don’t think it is recommended unless you really need almost everything.

  • owatnext@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    At the beginning of the COVID pandemic, I was attempting to mirror all of my favorite distro repos, just in case of societal collapse.

    • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      jigdo the entire repositories of your Debian’s favorite architectures for the win.