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You can store and manage private Debian packages and RPM packages inArtifact RegistryApt and Yum repositories. Managing your
OS packages in Artifact Registry provides:
Control over the Linux packages that your organization installs on bothCompute EngineVMs and Linux VMs outside of Google Cloud.
Access to OS packages when VMs do not have external internet access or when public
repositories have a service outage.
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