On 10/26/2010 05:40 AM, Kaiting Chen wrote:
Unrelated but thinking ahead, would it be possible to go ahead and get rid of /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and pull from a main http://www.archlinux.org/repository? Then have that repository instead be a proxy to the actual mirrors that round robin's them, possibly with some kind of IP geolocated weighting? Then the package downloads can be easily tracked through this main proxy.
To actually track the tcp-traffic (indirectly containing the name of the requested package) archlinux.org would have to _proxy_ the traffic (_all_ data would go _twice_ through their network infrastructure). This would make the concept of mirrors useless. The other possibility would be a round-robin domain name (like e.g. irc.freenode.net). This way archlinux.org could only log that a connection was made, but not which packages were requested. (Additionally all mirrors would have to use the same folder hierarchy) TL,DR: There is no technical way to monitor all package downloads. Regards, PyroPeter -- freenode/pyropeter "12:50 - Ich drücke Return."
