I just came across this AURcache build server that someone created, I haven’t used it but it sure does look interesting and useful. Maybe someone here will try it out?
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I’ve been trying this in 2025. Impressions:
Good:
- Really nice UI, shows builds and gets them cached
- The build server seems pretty stable
So-So:
- Adding packages can only be done one at a time
- Builds fail with being unable to fetch dependencies for specific packages, I am unable to reproduce it on any desktop - only the AURCache has the problem, and I can’t find any docs on remedying this.
Bad:
- It comes with its own repo proxy, built in Rust, that uses the Rocket file server. This server has zero directory listing capability it seems, so it does not behave like a proper http server and NGINX has issues proxying it. There’s not a lot of docs around it and the UX feels bad for someone expecting a repo to be a basic HTTP directory. I’m waiting to see if the developer has any insights on why this feels so broken here https://github.com/Lukas-Heiligenbrunner/AURCache/issues/244
- The repo seems unecessary - Ideally the packages are placed into the proper repo directory and I just leverage the same NGINX proxy server that fronts every other repo on the internal cache proxy, but instead I have to have this extra process redundantly providing this without full HTTP server capability.
Overall - very promising project - but it’s not easy to run and probably not the best solution if you’re not ready to get your head around some of the Rust code to figure out where things have gone wrong.