On 26/5/21 6:22 pm, Christian Hesse wrote: > Andrew Gregory <[email protected]> on Mon, 2021/05/24 11:50: >> On 05/24/21 at 08:31pm, Christian Hesse wrote: >>> Christian Hesse <[email protected]> on Fri, 2021/05/21 10:06: >>>> By setting an extra HTTP header 'X-Pacman-Expected-Failure' the server >>>> can indicate that the failure is expected. The next server is tried >>>> without error message and without increasing the server's error count. >>>> >>>> This can be used by servers that are not expected to be complete, for >>>> example when serving a local cache. >>> >>> Any comment on this? >>> Where to document the behavior? >>> >>> BTW, this is the matching branch for pacredir: >>> https://github.com/eworm-de/pacredir/commits/404-header >>de/pacredir/commits/404-header >> >> I'm not a fan of having this be server-side. > > Would be a perfect fit for me and my use case. :-p > > For those interested... I created simple flow charts to describe what happens > when pacman sends its requests to pacredir. > https://git.eworm.de/cgit/pacredir/about/FLOW.md >
Thanks - that helps a bit. I'm still confused about how pacredir updates databases from a mirror. I can see how it gets a database update from another host. Can you clarify? Tbanks, Allan
