[arch-projects] [devtools] [PATCH v2 1/1] arch-nspawn: ignore localhost for repository mirror

[Christian Hesse]

Erich Eckner <arch at eckner.net> on Mon, 2018/07/23 10:48:
> On 23.07.2018 09:48, Christian Hesse wrote:
> > Erich Eckner <arch at eckner.net> on Mon, 2018/07/23 09:20:  
> >> On 23.07.2018 09:16, Christian Hesse wrote:  
> >>> From: Christian Hesse <mail at eworm.de>
> >>>
> >>> My system has a mirror configuration where only the host can access a
> >>> local caching service on localhost. So ignore localhost urls.    
> >>
> >> I'm curious, how this can happen / why this is desirable. Shouldn't the
> >> client be able to access the same network resources as the host?
> >> In general, my feeling is, that it is rather desired to repair the
> >> caching for the client than skipping it.  
> > 
> > The host is running pacredir [0][1], which listens on localhost and
> > redirects to hosts it found on local network. But pacredir returning 404
> > is a valid answer, it just means the file is not available in local
> > network. In this case pacman just uses the next mirror.
> > 
> > In fact pacredir is accessible form client, but things would break
> > as it has just this single server configured. There is no fallback to a
> > real mirror that has all the files required.
> > 
> > [0] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/pacredir/
> > [1] https://github.com/eworm-de/pacredir#pacredir
> >   
> 
> So the core problem is, that archbuild - in contrast to pacman - only
> considers the first mirror. Wouldn't it be better to drop the "head -n1"
> then?

I think that would be fine as well. We need some more justification down the
code, though. Currently $host_mirror is expected to hold just one url.
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