[pacman-dev] [PATCH] RFC: Remove "duplicate" download error messages

[Andrew Gregory]

On 03/14/21 at 09:40pm, Andrew Gregory wrote:
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> What about actually removing a bad mirror instead of deduplicating the
> resulting messages?  Maybe start using the next mirror for subsequent
> payloads after n failures or immediately for things like an
> unresolvable host?

Took a quick stab at a first draft of this on my dload-server-skip
branch.  With the following config:

[core]
Server = http://allanmcrae1.com/
Server = http://allanmcrae1.com/
Server = http://allanmcrae.com/
Server = http://allanmcrae.com/
Server = http://allanmcrae.com/
Server = http://allanmcrae.com/
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

A failure limit of 3 gives the following output:

:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                129.9 KiB   135 KiB/s 00:01 [###################################] 100%
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from allanmcrae1.com : Could not resolve host: allanmcrae1.com
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from allanmcrae.com : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from allanmcrae.com : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from allanmcrae.com : The requested URL returned error: 404

It keys the errors count off of the full server url, we might want to
switch to just hostname to avoid repeating errors across db-specific
servers.  It also needs a warning/info message when it starts ignoring
a server.

apg