27 Oct
2010
27 Oct
'10
6:23 p.m.
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:03:30 -0400, Kaiting Chen <kaitocracy@gmail.com> wrote:
Not true, Arch could set up a round robin proxy to other mirrors such that when a package is requested it returns a HTTP 302 or HTTP 303 redirect. Then the only network traffic routed through Arch servers would only be the request HTTP headers which is quite insubstantial but would still allow real package statistics to be retrieved.
Kaiting.
This is called mirrorbrain (ok, it is a little more advanced). We just lack a server and someone to implement this. To make it more effective we'd also need some pacman modifications. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre