KaKi87 OP , 5 hours ago

Sorry to ask

Don’t be. I would love to know that an existing and more experienced program does what mine does.

I’ve been looking for it myself for a long time before deciding to build it.

isn’t this basically the same thing as apt-cacher-ng?

Here’s what I’m reading :

Apt-Cache-ng is A caching proxy. Specialized for package files from Linux distributors, primarily for Debian (and Debian based) distributions but not limited to those.

A caching proxy have the following benefits:

• Lower latency
• Reduce WAN traffic
• Higher speed for cached contents

<span style="color:#323232;">+------------+         +------------+        +------------+
</span><span style="color:#323232;">| Apt Client |  <------+ Apt Cache  | <------+ Apt Mirror |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">+------------+         +------------+        +------------+
</span>

So, not the same thing.

It locally mirrors existing repositories containing existing packages, it doesn’t locally create a new repository for new packages from standalone DEBs.