I am so dumb :D
When we setup apt-cacher in office, I switched my laptop sources.list to point to the cacher.
It worked perfectly fine. Until one day I tried to install something from home. Ofcourse it couldn't find the cacher server in my office.
But then what I did and kept doing for last one and half _years_ is that I created separate sources.list.home for home use... and kept manually switching between them by hand copying. And ofcourse every time I made the switch I had to do a lengthy fresh apt-get update (dumb dumb dumb.......)
Little did I know that all I had to do is append real repos at the bottom of the sources.list and apt will automatically fall back to it when the cacher one is not available.........
Sometimes i am just too afraid of the technology to trust that it will do the RightThing,(TM), probably remains from the windows era.....
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