On Sat, Jun 07, 2025 at 08:38:09PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Jun 07, 2025 at 09:08:50PM +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > > apt-cacher-ng is simply almost dead upstream/unmaintained, having just one > > release/maintainer upload since 2021 and many open bugs, including several > > very well known problems affecting many people. > > What are people using instead of apt-cacher-ng if I may ask? > > I've been using it for more than 10 years but the problems I have > encountered since upgrading to its bookworm version have got a lot > worse, including memory leaks, segfaults and clients that get stuck > endlessly after doing an "apt update". I too had got the impression that > it was basically dead and have been wondering what to replace it with. > > Just a general purpose caching HTTP proxy?
I've been using approx for... I don't know, maybe fifteen years or something? It has always worked mostly fine for me, and its files layout makes it easy for me to remove a file or two when I've pushed something to one of my own repos so that the clients will notice at once. The only problem I've had with it in the past years was that the approx-gc tool went away at some point; actually it was just about a week ago that I finally decided to go ahead and write my own tool for doing that; it has not been released yet (I'm still working out a couple of kinks in a couple of other Rust crates that I wrote specifically for it), but if anyone with a recent Rust compiler (yeah, sorry, even the one in Trixie-to-be won't quite do) wants to give it a go, it's at https://gitlab.com/ppentchev/unref-files I still have to write some usage documentation, but generally `unref-files [-d] [-v] approx find [--delete]` is all that is supported for now. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org pe...@morpheusly.com PGP key: https://www.ringlet.net/roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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