Pacoloco integration with CachyOS

Having 6 local CachyOS systems, I was looking for a caching solution (similar to AptCacherNg in the Debian realm) and found Pacoloco.

While it was originally created for Arch Linux, I have been able to re-configure Pacoloco to work with CachyOS (including v3 and v4 repositories) with a high level of success (think 1 Gbps for updates).

If anyone is interested in configuring a local Pacoloco to work with CachyOS, please reach out.

Hey :slight_smile:

Very cool! You maybe just want to provide a github repository with the configuration for the cache server, which can be used by other users :slight_smile:

Nice. This is good for large organizations. I believe Chris Titus Tech did something similar but with Debian or something.

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I always thought that we need some kind of peer-to-peer solution for Linux to go along and truly fulfill that “freedom to distribute” part of that GNU philosophy. I hope one day we can get to that point. Everyone know it takes much bandwidth cost to run mirrors and must have high uptime and fast connection be useful. If we can automate downloading packages and seed them without installing them, it would take less time to upgrade/update. not only that it could be an indication about when to delete package cache, that is when nobody asking for them.

Wndows does something similar to this with their delivery optimization.but mostly for local networked devices. If they can do that we can do better.

I don’t know if someone implement something similar or not but if any one interested checkout DHT protocol.

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Thanks.
Keep up the good work

Hey,
indeed very interesting. Would be very appreciated if you could share your config here or as mentioned in a some git-repo.

yeah interested in how you did this… I am about to go down this rabbit hole and would like to see you config… which will no doubt help…

Ok - Finally got around to getting my github up and running and posting the configs and a brief how-to.

Take a look and let me know if you have any questions/concerns.

I recently acquired a Zen4 mainboard (Framework 13 Ryzen 5 7640U). As such, I have added, tested and confirmed that the new v4 repos now work as well.

See Github for more information.

Please reachout if you have any questions /issues.