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An improved apt caching proxy with the goal of surviving upstream outages.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2026-05-10 · latest 2026-11-04

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  1. …bug. The next version is going to include TLS and ACME support for the client->cache connection. https://github.com/linsomniac/apt-cacher-ultra
  2. >In the spirit of the latter, here's mine! To pile on, here's mine: https://github.com/linsomniac/apt-cacher-ultra It is a robust, reliable cache of apt packages, with the additional goal of still being able to serve packages from the…
  3. …would regularly choke and require some handholding. I'm hoping -ultra resolves that as well. https://github.com/linsomniac/apt-cacher-ultra
    comment by linsomniac · 2026-07-13 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
  4. …like I'll be cutting a 1.0 release later this week (after extensive testing in my environment). https://github.com/linsomniac/apt-cacher-ultra The primary features I'm focusing on are: It can serve packages if the upstream is unavailable…
    comment by linsomniac · 2026-06-14 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
  5. …It's looking like I'll be doing a 1.0 release next week (it's been in beta for ~3 weeks). https://github.com/linsomniac/apt-cacher-ultra We do ground-up respins of half of our dev+stg cluster every morning, to test our automation, but this…
  6. …week before it's ready for a beta. I'm running it in my dev cluster right now, successfully. https://github.com/linsomniac/apt-cacher-ultra
    comment by linsomniac · 2026-05-10 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)