[Distutils] bandersnatch update

[Christian Theune]

On 2013-04-10 03:14:37 +0000, PJ Eby said:

> 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?

Right, that's what I expect in most cases, too. I see projects setting 
up project-specificy PyPI-style index pages so I can see benefit for 
that kind of application of not mirroring PyPI completely but keeping 
it public.

Christian