Re: apt-cacher-ultra beta: Another apt cache, focusing on reliability and offline availability.

On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 08:42:22AM -0600, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> You don't say which version you are running, there have been a lot of subtle
> issues with the adoption that I've fixed

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> On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 7:30 AM Anssi Saari wrote:
> > Sean Reifschneider <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> > > In my testing, it's still very on track for a mid June 1.0
> > > release.  I've run thousands of system installs and thousands of
> > > apt update/upgrade cycles and the issues I've run into have been
> > > addressed, 0.9.7 has been working great with no adoption failures
> > > (the biggest issue I'd been running into; the adoption is the
> > > trickiest part but also the most worthwhile WRT surviving DDoS).
> >
> > Well, in my little home network this was working but after a while I
> > noticed unattended-updates hadn't updated and I got this with manual:
> >
> > # apt update
> > Get:1 https://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security
> > InRelease [48.0 kB]
> > Get:2 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease [151 kB]
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > E: Release file for
> >
> > https://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/bookworm-security/InRelease
> >   is expired (invalid since 9d 10h 37min 0s). Updates for this repository
> >   will not be applied.
> >
> > Disabling the cache and running apt update fixed it but what could cause
> > this?
> >
> 
> there have been a lot of subtle issues with the adoption that I've fixed
> and the 0.10.4 release has been running really, really well for me.
> If you ARE running 0.10.4, LMK and we can do further debugging.
> 
> https://github.com/linsomniac/apt-cacher-ultra/releases/tag/0.10.4
> 
> I'd also start over with a new cache directory (save the "ca"
> sub-directory):
> 
>     systemctl stop apt-cacher-ultra
>     cd /var/cache/apt-cacher-ultra
>     rm -rf cache* pool staging tmp
>     #  update your package
>     systemctl start apt-cacher-ultra
> 
> Thanks for providing the feedback.  I'm considering the 0.10.4 to be a
> RC2 for the 1.0 release.  I found an issue with expiry of "fat" repos
> (repos that list all historic versions of a package, docker and
> elastic both do this) that I put some changes in for and I want to
> let those soak for a while.
> 
> I'd appreciate it if you gave 0.10.4 a try and let me know how
> it works for you.

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gets more easy when writing in the discussion order.





Regards
Geert Stappers


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