[Dev] repo redirector modificatoins

[bill-auger]

On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 21:30:44 +0200 Andreas wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 02:46:46PM -0400, bill-auger wrote:
> > i dont see any sacrifice in dropping arch mirrors - arch
> > parabola packages can only be acquired from one of the
> > existing parabola mirrors  
> 
> The sacrifice is bandwidth
> mirror nearby and a parabola mirror far away

understood - we do have that information

https://www.parabola.nu/mirrors/

it looks like north america, europ, and asia are covered
sufficiently - the out-lying areas being south america, africa,
middle-east, and australia - but keep in mind that the
arch-bound redirector does not have any logic in it now - it
simply selects one of a fixed set of ten indiscriminately; and
im not sure if geographic diversity was ever considered as a
criteria for being place into that set - those more distant
locations may not be served optimally with the current redirector
either