There are cases where the mirror from cloudflaremirrors fail, for example I'm getting a 500 response from cloudflaremirrors since some weeks ago and therefore the packages fail to build. The errors that I'm getting are (in reverse order):
Jun 22 21:07:25 CatBuilder systemd-machined[407]: Machine pkgfae4d382cef terminated.
Jun 22 21:07:25 CatBuilder systemd[1]: machine-pkgfae4d382cef.scope: Deactivated successfully.
Jun 22 21:07:25 CatBuilder chaotic[1003064]: [58B blob data]
Jun 22 21:07:25 CatBuilder chaotic[1003064]: error: failed to prepare transaction (could not find database)
Jun 22 21:07:25 CatBuilder chaotic[1003064]: warning: xz-5.2.5-3 is up to date -- skipping
Jun 22 21:07:25 CatBuilder chaotic[1003064]: warning: tar-1.34-1 is up to date -- skipping
Jun 22 21:07:25 CatBuilder chaotic[1003064]: warning: perl-5.36.0-1 is up to date -- skipping
Jun 22 21:07:25 CatBuilder chaotic[1003064]: warning: flex-2.6.4-3 is up to date -- skipping
Jun 22 21:07:25 CatBuilder chaotic[1003064]: warning: libelf-0.187-1 is up to date -- skipping
Jun 22 21:07:24 CatBuilder chaotic[1003064]: [54B blob data]
Jun 22 21:07:24 CatBuilder chaotic[1003064]: [82B blob data]
Jun 22 21:07:24 CatBuilder chaotic[1003064]: error: failed to synchronize all databases (failed to retrieve some files)
Jun 22 21:07:24 CatBuilder chaotic[1003064]: error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from cloudflaremirrors.com : The requested URL returned error: 500
Jun 22 21:07:24 CatBuilder chaotic[1003064]: warning: too many errors from cloudflaremirrors.com, skipping for the remainder of this transaction
Jun 22 21:07:24 CatBuilder chaotic[1003064]: error: failed retrieving file 'multilib.db' from cloudflaremirrors.com : The requested URL returned error: 500
Jun 22 21:07:24 CatBuilder chaotic[1003064]: error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from cloudflaremirrors.com : The requested URL returned error: 500
Jun 22 21:07:24 CatBuilder chaotic[1003064]: [290B blob data]
Jun 22 21:07:23 CatBuilder chaotic[1003064]: chaotic-aur
Jun 22 21:07:23 CatBuilder chaotic[1003064]: multilib
Jun 22 21:07:23 CatBuilder chaotic[1003064]: community
Jun 22 21:07:23 CatBuilder chaotic[1003064]: extra
Jun 22 21:07:23 CatBuilder chaotic[1003064]: core
Jun 22 21:07:23 CatBuilder chaotic[1003064]: [43B blob data]
Adding an additional mirror prevent this kind of problem.
Note: the mirror from rackspace also works under a CDN, if you consideer that we should add another just let me know and I will update the PR.
There are cases where the mirror from cloudflaremirrors fail, for example I'm getting a 500 response from cloudflaremirrors since some weeks ago and therefore the packages fail to build. The errors that I'm getting are (in reverse order):
Adding an additional mirror prevent this kind of problem.
Note: the mirror from rackspace also works under a CDN, if you consideer that we should add another just let me know and I will update the PR.