Am Dienstag 26 Oktober 2010, 16:55:27 schrieb PyroPeter: > 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
Why not let pacman do the job (similar to how yaourt uses aurvote)? Let pacman send a "ping" to some server like aurvote does. Michael -- PGP-Key: 51C1D000 Jabber: [email protected] http://akurei.de
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