Christian Theune <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > > On 2013-04-06 19:56:19 +0000, Ralf Schmitt said: >> does bandersnatch support some kind of "selective mirroring"? e.g. only >> mirror sdists or only a certain list of packages? > > At the moment it does not. My primary goal is currently to provide a > stable solution to reliably run mirrors in the sense of PEP 381. > > The internal mechanisms of PEP 381 and the way that clients can > authenticate the mirrored packages is not compatible with a partial > mirror as the index pages are not generated but taken byte-by-byte so > they can be verified with PyPIs cryptographic signature on them. > > I can see that this would be useful. However, my current knowledge is > that the way to authenticate the packages will change in the "near" > future: Richard Jones mentioned that "the update framework" would be > interesting for this. I do not know yet what the implications for the > mirrors will be, but I don't want to invest too much time into > complexity that I need to rework in the near future. >
thanks for the explanation! -- cheers ralf _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
