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We had the same problems already in the 90s and resolved them by caching, it's unthinkable that the whole build is broken by a problem with an external dependen

• creshal 5y ago
  https://wiki.debian.org/AptCacherNg https://wiki.debian.org/AptCacherNg still exists and still works fine.
  • tambre 5y ago
    Aptly [0] is also really nice for maintaining mirrors and one's own Apt repositories though it is unmaintained. [0]: https://github.com/aptly-dev/aptly https://github.com/aptly-dev/aptly
• silon42 5y ago
  Not caching... mirroring or vendoring.
• rkeene2 5y ago
  I wrote "hashcache" [0] [1] for this for my Linux distribution (which is the build from source variety) to avoid issues with upstream going away, or worse changing the contents of a file. Many different caches can be used, in case one is down as well. Simple example download script at [2]. [0] http://hashcache.rkeene.org/ http://hashcache.rkeene.org/ [1] https://chiselapp.com/user/rkeene/repository/hashcache/ https://chiselapp.com/user/rkeene/repository/hashcache/ [2] https://kitcreator.rkeene.org/fossil/artifact/d546c4b48dfce807 https://kitcreator.rkeene.org/fossil/artifact/d546c4b48dfce8...