https://labs.parabola.nu/https://labs.parabola.nu/favicon.ico?15367742552016-09-21T23:53:25ZParabola Issue TrackerPackages - Bug #1102: Specify mirrors for package downloading only, but not for updating databasehttps://labs.parabola.nu/issues/1102?journal_id=72202016-09-21T23:53:25Zisacdaavid
<ul></ul><p>Leveraging existing Arch mirrors is indeed useful; and I say <em>is</em> rather than <em>would</em> because right now there's a second approach [1] which uses a pseudo-mirror to redirect package requests, but serves databases locally.</p>
<p>Since Arch mirrors don't contain all Parabola packages, I'm guessing one needs to specify <code>ServerNoUpdate=</code> on a per-repository basis, or add at least one mirror from each distro to the mirror list when using <code>Include=</code>'s rather than <code>Server=</code>'s in <code>pacman.conf</code>. I think [1] is a little more transparent, and doesn't require us to maintain a patch. Nonetheless your solution is worth discussing with the community, so I'm bumping this report to attract commentators.</p>
<p>[1]: <a class="external" href="https://www.parabola.nu/mirrors/redirector.parabola.nu">https://www.parabola.nu/mirrors/redirector.parabola.nu</a></p>