On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 02:46:46PM -0400, bill-auger wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 20:39:19 +0200 Andreas wrote: > > stop redirecting to arch mirrors, but only if we can make sure > > to provide proper global coverage. > > i dont see any sacrifice in dropping arch mirrors - arch mirrors > do not contain any parabola packages; so even now, parabola > packages can only be acquired from one of the existing parabola > mirrors
The sacrifice is bandwidth, and by extension time. If I pacstrap from a remote location, that happens to have an arch mirror nearby and a parabola mirror far away, then I can speed up the process a lot by using the arch mirror for the bulk of the packages that come from upstream. Checking the installed sizes of packages on my system gives: 7800 MiB for core/extra/community 2900 MiB for libce/pcr Assuming equal update frequencies for arch and parabola, which is pretty generous for the sake of this argument, that is still ~70% of transfers that can be considerably sped up by having an arch mirror with a better bandwidth than the nearest parabola mirror. Best, -oak -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ my GPG Public Key: https://files.grapentin.org/.gpg/public.key ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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