On 31/05/15 14:46, Nicolás Reynolds wrote: > Luke Shumaker <[email protected]> writes: >> In the past we've discussed setting up a 'repomirror.parabola.nu' that >> automatically redirects you to a mirror. Perhaps that should be >> bumped in priority. The "gotcha" with that is we'd need >> up-to-date-ish information on which mirrors had already synced for new >> packages. > > we also discussed this fan mirror (to call it something) would reply > with a redirect to an arch mirror if the package was on arch repos and > wasn't blacklisted, so this would make parabola repos only host [libre], > [pcr] and [sources]. > > the gotcha can be solved by making a HEAD request to the mirror for the > package before replying with an http redirect. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev >
Best solution: 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.
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