Apt-cacher-ng Tutorial for a good use

[datalove]

Hello,
I discovered census by @unman apt-cacher-ng here

Does anyone have a tutorial for implementing this in Qubes 4.1?

[tanky0u]

+1 for a tutorial/guide, too.

[whoami]

haha, I thought the same.
+2

[unman]

I’ve updated my notes in to more of a tutorial -

unman/notes/blob/master/apt-cacher-ng.md

If you want a salt approach look at https://github.com/unman/shaker,
where there is a state for cacher.

If you want a turnkey solution, look at https://qubes.3isec.org/tasks.html.
Install qubes-task and then select the cacher package, which will
automatically install and configure your system to use the caching
proxy.

[datalove]

Hey, thanks a lot. I’m going to look into this!

[enmus]

And, if someday you want to update all of your qubes the same way, over qrexec, this could help

How to update non-template qubes over qrexec while using apt-cahcer-ng as netVM & everything in policies talk about cacher

I have set fully functional apt-cacher-ng qube and am updating all the templates and dom0 via it. Now, in general I always try to install packages first in disposables to check whatever, but for obvious reasons I cannot do that. So, what I do, I have a backup of non-apt-cacher-ng yum.repos.d and sources.list 9and all other for different distros), so when I want to install something, I overwrite those in disposables with originals, then being able to download. I tried to find persistent way for…

I’m using it because all of my VMs are offline by default, and if I want them online, I set their netVM manually upon their startup.

[tanky0u]

Can you re-format the part:

Edit /etc/apt-cacher-ng/acng.conf: Remap-qubes: http://fake.qubes ; file:backends_qubes

Then in /etc/yum/yum.repos.d, change the repository URL to http://fake.qubes/…

What is the exact form of the remapped link? http://fake.qubes/... ?

Also the link in your guide leads to an empty document. I supposed you meant this link?
https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/