Features

Japt-Proxy comes with the following features:

• Caching of all apt requests from Debian archives
• Multi-threaded architecture which increases the download speed enormously when several machines are requesting packages
• Builds up a partial mirror directory automatically, with exactly the same directory structure and filenames as the original mirror
• Automatic and configurable cache cleanup (purging packages in cache if newer versions exists)
• Makes sources.list configuration easier for multiple machines - if you change your internet backend server you only have to make the change once in Japt-Proxy, instead of on all Debian machines
• Works with multiple architectures
• Backend support for HTTP and FTP
• existing .debs can be copied into the Japt-Proxy cache directory (from a CD or DVD for example) and will be used by the Proxy automatically
• Works as a standalone server (using an embedded HTTP engine) or as a J2EE web archive (WAR) in a J2EE Webserver like Apache Tomcat