Angry Caching Proxy

This is a angry caching proxy which speeds up package downloads for apt-get, npm and rubygems.

It works by doing very angry caching (forever!) for the actual package files. This should work ok as long as the package authors won't override already uploaded packages. For details review the handler files.

Install

Get node.js and type

sudo npm install -g angry-caching-proxy

or if you don't sudoing random code you can install it locally too:

npm install angry-caching-proxy

and execute it with

node_modules/.bin/angry-caching-proxy

Usage

Create directory where save cached files

mkdir cache

and start the server

angry-caching-proxy --directory cache

apt-get

http_proxy=http://localhost:8000 sudo -E apt-get install sl

Bundler

http_proxy=http://localhost:8000 bundle install

npm

With npm it is required to use the non-https version of the registry

http_proxy=http://localhost:8000 npm install --registry http://registry.npmjs.org/