Post by @feld@friedcheese.us

Cache the FreeBSD pkgbase packages on your network

https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/11/local-mirror-for-freebsd-pkgbase/

Makefile.feld

Local Mirror for FreeBSD pkgbase

FreeBSD pkgbase finally brings the base OS to you as discrete packages instead of monolithic tarball

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dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker:

@dch@bsd.network 2 hr. ago

@feld nice, but also https://github.com/git-pkgs/proxy/ nicer, can cache all the other package manager bits. in ports https://www.freshports.org/ports-mgmt/git-proxy/ and waiting on a name change upstream.

FreshPorts -- ports-mgmt/git-proxy: Caching proxy for package registries, including FreeBSD pkg

git-proxy is a caching proxy for package registries. It sits between package managers and their upstream repositories, keeps a local copy of every package it serves, and keeps serving them while the upstream is unreachable. It speaks the FreeBSD pkg(8) repository protocol, so a single host can cache pkg.FreeBSD.org (ports, kmods and pkgbase, for every ABI) and self-hosted poudriere repositories for a whole network. Repository catalogues are served byte for byte, so pkg(8) still checks their signatures against the keys in /usr/share/keys. It also proxies npm, PyPI, Cargo, RubyGems, Go modules, Maven, Hex, OCI images, Debian, RPM, Alpine and Arch repositories and more.

GitHub

GitHub - git-pkgs/proxy: A lightweight caching proxy for package registries.

A lightweight caching proxy for package registries. - git-pkgs/proxy

Jason Tubnor 🇦🇺

@tubsta@social.bsdlab.au 24 min. ago

@dch @feld Problem I experience here is that the Cloudfront caches are always cold here as there just isn't the user count in Australia. Typically only see 10-30Mb/s when performing package operations.

Not so with OpenBSD or DragonflyBSD as there are local mirrors (we server 10Gb/s instances of these).