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apt-cacher-ng docker image

deployable/acng

Apt-Cacher NG is a caching proxy for linux distribution packages, primarily Debian. https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/

This image for apt-cacher-ng config adds support for:

The au, uk and us images configure local mirror backends when geo mirrors are not available.

Docker Registry Images

The deployable/acng repository is available on Docker hub.

The image tags available to install are:

deployable/acng
deployable/acng:latest-au
deployable/acng:latest-uk
deployable/acng:latest-us

Run

docker run \
  --restart always \
  --detach \
  --volume apt-cacher-ng-vol:/var/cache/apt-cacher-ng:rw \
  --publish 3142:3142 \
  deployable/acng

Build

Build the image

./make.sh build

Run the image

./make.sh run

Run a localised image (au, uk, us)

./make.sh run:us

Rebuild and run

./make.sh rebuild

Build a locale image with local backends configured (au, uk, us)

./make.sh build
./make.sh build:au

Mirror and Backend lists

The latest mirrors can be fetched with src/fetch-mirrors.js. This script Requires Node.js 8+

It will download and parse the latest Centos, Fedora, Epel and Apache mirror lists into files/*_mirrors files for acng.

Configure your selected backends from those mirrors lists in files/backends_{name}. There are packaged au, uk and us backends

The default acng config in the deployable/acng:latest tag has no opinion on backends deployable/acng:latest-au includes the AU backends, :latest-uk and :latest-us tags are built as well.

About

Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/deployable/acng/ GitHub: https://github.com/deployable/docker-apt-cacher-ng

Matt Hoyle - code atat deployable.co