so, i've talked about this idea for a few years now, but never really got to do it, until now :P
behold! http://kiwwwi.com.ar/pastes/parabola.lainventoria.com.ar.conf.html what it does is serve local files directly and redirect unknown requests to an arch mirror using the last second of request time as "random" seed. so, if we just host the cleaned up database files and our packages, everything else will be redirected to a public arch mirror. load is balanced between mirrors. requests: * /core/os/i686/core.db.tar.gz: must exist in cleaned up format to be served locally * /libre/os/i686/libre.db.tar.gz: exists and is served locally * /core/os/i686/random_package.pkg.tar.xz: redirected to arch mirror * /core/os/i686/unfree_package.pkg.tar.xz: never requested because it's not on the cleaned up database. this is just a proof a concept, do not use! it can be safer, for example never issuing redirects for database files, so if they're missing for some reason, people doesn't get an update full of unfree things. what do you think? this would save a lot of mirroring space we could use for other stuff, but i'm not sure if it qualifies as "fully hosted" as per FSDG. -- :>
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