On 2/6/21 12:28 am, Christian Hesse wrote: > Christian Hesse <[email protected]> on Fri, 2021/05/28 17:55: >> Allan McRae <[email protected]> on Fri, 2021/05/28 22:52: >>>>> Does this >>>>> mean the "new" database on the hosts network could be long out of date, >>>>> but as long as it is newer than the local machine being updated, that >>>>> is what will be used? >>>> >>>> Well, out-of-date is a term that does barely match here... pacman does >>>> known about the date of its current database files only. So yes, more >>>> recent database files are used as long as they are newer than the local >>>> ones - even if out-of-date compared with a mirror. >>>> >>>> That's why the pacredir documentation tells you to run `pacman -Sy` >>>> twice to be sure: First run fetches the newest database from local >>>> network, second run (where pacredir returns 404) fetches from mirror if >>>> a newer version is available. >>> >>> This does very little to convince me that the CacheServer proposal >>> should be used for databases. >> >> So let's implement CacheServer for package files only as described >> in FS#23407. >> >> Apply my patch anyway to make pacman happy with pacredir. :) > > Now that pacman 6.0.0 is in [core] we should have an idea of a solution at > least. Given that a number of caching solutions exist [0] having the header > solution around may be not the worst idea. So does this have a chance to be > committed? >
Andrew already gave it a -1. That means there is zero chance of it being committed. > Still the CacheServer directive for package files would not work with database > files. Thus it would not be a real solution for use with pacredir. > So would you accept a patch to disable the server error limit from > configuration and command line switch? That would kind of resolve the > issue but result in error messages still being thrown for me, however... > Had hoped to get rid of that. Going through other caching solutions, CacheServer ignoring missing packages would solve most issues. So I'll implement that when I have a spare 30 minutes. Once that is done pacredir can probably do "pacman -Sy; pacman -Sy; pacman -Su" as a workaround until we handle dbs too. Allan
