Great,

it works for me.
First I updated the system as usual, then I added the following in the 
mirrorlist:

```
Server = https://repomirror.parabola.nu/$repo/os/$arch
```

And I updated again. 4 packages were outdated. pacman scanned through the 
mirrorlist to find the first mirror that had the correct version of the 
package. So after some 404s, all the packages were found and the system updated 
correctly.

Cheers.

On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 07:24:35PM -0400, Luke Shumaker wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I think I've discussed it forever.  But I finally got around to
> implementing it: <https://repomirror.parabola.nu/>.
> 
> If you put it in your mirrorlist, it will automatically redirect you
> to a mirror that has synced recently enough to have the package you
> are looking for.  For .db files, it always sends you to
> repo.parabola.nu (that is, it always gives you the most up-to-date
> version).
> 
> It is my hope that this will help load-balance between mirrors, while
> also allowing users to not have to worry about a mirror being
> out-of-date.
> 
> For mirror selection, it checks the parabolaweb mirror status database
> (<https://www.parabola.nu/mirrors/status/json>) and randomly chooses
> from mirrors with a lastsync timestamp newer than the ctime of the
> file you are looking for, and falls back to <repo.parabola.nu>. It
> also knows to only use repo.parabola.nu for files that don't get
> rsync'ed.
> 
> For future improvements, it could consider mirror speed (as determined
> by parabolaweb), or use GeoIP to weight higher mirrors that are closer
> to you, et c.
> 
> It hasn't been thoroughly tested yet.  Let me know of any issues you
> find!
> 
> -- 
> Happy hacking,
> ~ Luke Shumaker
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