[Dev] [Urgent] Mirroring Policy

[Luke Shumaker]

On Sun, 31 May 2015 17:17:47 -0600,
Nicolás Reynolds wrote:
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> Nicolás Reynolds <fauno at endefensadelsl.org> writes:
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> > Nicolás Reynolds <fauno at endefensadelsl.org> writes:
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> >> Joseph Graham <joseph at t67.eu> writes:
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> >>> Best solution:
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> >>> Get rid of all parabola mirrors. Modify the repo database format to
> >>> include whether it's an unmodified arch package or not. Include arch
> >>> mirrorlist. Make a pacman plugin which fetches the package from arch
> >>> mirrors if it's an arch package or our server if it's just a Parabola
> >>> package.

There's no modification needed for that, if $filename =~
/(core|extra|community)/*.pkg.* , then an Arch mirror is fine.
Otherwise it's not.  If you want to know at the pool level, files in
the "packages" and "community" pools are unmodified from Arch, the
"parabola" pool is the only one with our files.

> >> but this and probably my propposal would collide with FSDG requirement
> >> of self-hosting.

We could have an hackyrepo.parabola.nu that does a 301 to an Arch
mirror for Arch packages.  The main repo would still serve the files.

Or a load-balancing repomirror.parabola.nu could include Arch mirrors
for files from Arch.  That's the best option I think.

Which reminds my of my desire that nginx have the ability to turn
symlinks into 302 requests iff the target is in the web root.

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Happy hacking,
~ Luke Shumaker