Erich Eckner <[email protected]> on Mon, 2018/07/23 10:48: > On 23.07.2018 09:48, Christian Hesse wrote: > > Erich Eckner <[email protected]> on Mon, 2018/07/23 09:20: > >> On 23.07.2018 09:16, Christian Hesse wrote: > >>> From: Christian Hesse <[email protected]> > >>> > >>> My system has a mirror configuration where only the host can access a > >>> local caching service on localhost. So ignore localhost urls. > >> > >> I'm curious, how this can happen / why this is desirable. Shouldn't the > >> client be able to access the same network resources as the host? > >> In general, my feeling is, that it is rather desired to repair the > >> caching for the client than skipping it. > > > > The host is running pacredir [0][1], which listens on localhost and > > redirects to hosts it found on local network. But pacredir returning 404 > > is a valid answer, it just means the file is not available in local > > network. In this case pacman just uses the next mirror. > > > > In fact pacredir is accessible form client, but things would break > > as it has just this single server configured. There is no fallback to a > > real mirror that has all the files required. > > > > [0] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/pacredir/ > > [1] https://github.com/eworm-de/pacredir#pacredir > > > > So the core problem is, that archbuild - in contrast to pacman - only > considers the first mirror. Wouldn't it be better to drop the "head -n1" > then?
I think that would be fine as well. We need some more justification down the
code, though. Currently $host_mirror is expected to hold just one url.
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