On 2013-04-10 03:14:37 +0000, PJ Eby said:
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Christian Theune <ct@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