[Distutils] bandersnatch update

PJ Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Wed Apr 10 05:14:37 CEST 2013


On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Christian Theune <ct at gocept.com> wrote:
> The simplest solution on a static mirror that I can see for this would be
> (with nginx) a "missing files" rule that redirects to PyPI. However, that
> would be bad form as that would cause *any* 404-triggering request on a
> mirror to hit the upstream server - bad for bots.

Even if you limited it to just the /packages subtree?  I guess I'm not
sure what scenario results in bot-havoc for a partial mirror.  I mean,
wouldn't partial mirrors be basically private?


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