On 10/6/19 1:45 PM, Greg Minshall wrote: > Lukas, > >> It's possible and I am fine with doing that. However, we won't >> regenerate those files too often and you'll have to accept that they >> will be slightly out of date. > > yes, that's perfectly fine. great, actually. > >> If a lot of people start downloading these files, we might need to >> consider using CDN/mirrors. > > curiosity: packages.gz seems to come just from aur.archlinux.org? (is > that a single machine, or is there a load-balancer, or some such, in > front of it?)
The gz files are simply on-disk files. A cron job regenerates it, and IIRC the job fires every 5 minutes. The AUR website simply serves the contents as-is. As for load balancing, we only use one machine. (It is located at luna.archlinux.org) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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