Query Regarding Hosting a Ubuntu Mirror

Haw Loeung haw.loeung at canonical.com
Wed Oct 26 22:20:59 UTC 2016


On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 01:57:57PM +0200, Chris Glass wrote:
> Should you only have fewer resources available - did you consider
> running a caching proxy instead of a full mirror? It is by far the
> most deployed solution if you don't want to run a mirror for i.e. a
> full country. I suggest having a look at the squid-deb-proxy package
> for example.

There's a juju charm to set up a caching mirror but prior knowledge of
juju[1] is required:

cs:trusty/ubuntu-repository-cache

Probably best explained in the README of that charm below:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~charmers/charms/trusty/ubuntu-repository-cache/trunk/view/head:/README.md


Regards,

Haw


[1]https://jujucharms.com/docs/1.25/getting-started
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