[arch-general] Making pacman check multiple repos

[Xavier]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com> wrote:
> While I'm not as concerned about security as some (most) here, I do
> think "db files from one site and packages from another" is a good idea.
> (some) Mirrors will be slow, however, and there will be additional
> complexity since the db would perhaps be several steps ahead of most
> mirrors. For example if package foo-1.2 is installed, package foo-1.4 is
> in the db, and package foo-1.3 is in the mirror, pacman would have to be
> smart enough to install foo-1.3....
>

Why should it do that ? And that would make the security aspect
completely irrelevant.

You did say you were not concerned about security (and to be honest,
me neither), but it's still not a reason to ignore it.

By the way, when you use more than one mirror, pacman will just switch
to the second one if it doesn't find the file it wants.