Mirrors

• The successful attacks on Debian forced me to update my mirroring strategy...

• When you work on multiple ports, not having a local copy of sources can be a problem.

• When you have lots of systems representing most of Debian's architectures, but very few run more than a minimal development environment, it's amazing how disk efficient a cache can be compared to a mirror!

• Run apt-cron on a machine of each architecture and the binary cache stays reasonably well primed.

• How about caching binaries but mirroring the source tree?

  • If you run an autobuilder, you're going to grab every new source package as it gets uploaded anyway...

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