FS#72689 - optionally skip servers with too many errors

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Dimitris (mitsigan) - Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 09:40 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Backend/Core
Status Unconfirmed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 6.0.0
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:
Since the 6.0.0 release pacman stops any transaction with a server that returned 3 errors. I figured this number is hardcoded on pacman and it's easy to change but it requires rebuilding and all the special treatment that a modified package needs. So I suggest that this feature is optional by configuration.

Relative changelog:
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/blob/master/NEWS#L22

Relative commit:
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/4bf7aa119d7fc2ace226439407169884e07dbc88

This feature bothers me because I have built a local package server that only caches packages that are requested from the computers in the local network. So every 404 request is useful.
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