Hi, On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 08:51:34AM -0600, Sean Reifschneider wrote: > I've been working on a new apt cacher I'm calling "apt-cacher-ultra", with > two goals in mind: > > - > > Robustness. > - > > Availability when upstream is down. > > I consider it to be at the beta stage now, I'm slowing down development and > I'm mostly just letting it soak in my various environments to get hours on > it to see how robust it proves to be. > > https://github.com/linsomniac/apt-cacher-ultra
Very interesting, thanks, I shall take a look. I currently use apt-cacher-ng and have done for a long time but it's been very unreliable in recent releases. I have big problems with: - Memory leaks. Every few days apt-cacher-ng process exceeds its RAM allocation and invokes oom-killer. - Strange client lockups. "apt update" on some clients occasionally hang forever. - Segfaults in apt-cacher-ng process All these reported as bugs long ago by others so I've nothing to add to those bug reports and no real hope of seeing a fix. So all that to say: I welcome another project attempting to pull this off: I'm in the market for a replacement and if it's a drop-in for apt-cacher-ng then that would be ideal. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
