Subject: 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 <jafo00@gmail.com> 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.

Yes, being in contact with users / customers is a nice thing. Showing/presenting/leading "I'm a programmer, I know logic"
gets more easy when writing in the discussion order.





Regards
Geert Stappers


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