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 However, we won't regenerate those files too often and you'll have to accept that they will be slightly out of date.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