Investigate apt caching

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
debian

Research direction

Start by reviewing the Apt-Cacher-NG approach in the linked Debian wiki page and assess how it would fit the PSF infrastructure. Determine whether package updates can use a local cache while security updates remain uncached, and document a concrete recommendation or implementation scope.

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Description

Our apt updates and upgrades really are hit or miss because landscape or whatever mirror goes down sort've often.

Check to see if we can use something like

to have a local cache to update from

...or some type of "allow caching for package updates except for security updates"

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