[plug] APT proxy/gateway/cache

[Tim White]

I am now running a number of machines on debian at home. My main 
workstation is Debian testing/unstable while the others are Debian 
Stable with the occasional testing.
I am looking for a method of using apt-get on all the machines with out 
the nusance of download the Packages files every few days on ALL the 
machines and with out duplicate downloads. On the workstation I have a 
directory of about 500 .debs that I have collected over time and am 
using the following command to build the Packages.gz file.
dpkg-scanpackages archives/ /dev/null | gzip -9c > archives/Packages.gz
I then export the directory over NFS and the other machines can get the 
packages. Unfortunately this doesn't allow for 
stable/testing/unstable/experimental and doesn't solve the other problems.
I have got apt-proxy but can't seem to get it to work. I think that this 
would be the solution but haven't looked at others yet. It also won't 
import my directory of packages.
What do others use? I am on a dialup and currently have 370 Mb of stored 
packages from stable, testing and unstable (Saved a lot of downloads 
when I had to rebuild an install)
Thanks
Tim