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Soukyuu

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Registered: 2014-04-08

Posts: 854

Multiple cachedir: preference and fallback

I currently have two cachedirs in my /etc/pacman.conf

CacheDir    =  /mnt/pkgcache/ /var/cache/pacman/pkg/

The first one is on my home server, mounted via ssh, the second one is local.

I expected this to work as following:
- if the package is on my home server, grab that, else download to my server
- if my home server is down, download to the local cachedir

The second part doesn't seem to work: if the server is down, I get an error about not being able to access remote directory.
Any way I could solve that?

On another computer running testing, I'd want pacman to behave as following:
- check if the package is available on the server, if yes, grab that
- always download to the local cachedir

Would reversing the order of the cache dirs to

CacheDir    =  /var/cache/pacman/pkg/  /mnt/pkgcache/

achieve that?

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