A proxy for when you don't want to upgrade your Arch installation as often as you should.
When you pacman -S a package after a long time without updates, it might no
longer be available in the repositories. Using -Sy could result in an
inconsistent system state, and you might not want to do a full upgrade at the
time.
If that happens, this proxy will instead serve the old version of the package from the Arch Linux Archive.
~$ ala-proxy -h
Usage of ala-proxy:
-archive string
archive url (default "https://archive.archlinux.org")
-listen string
listen address (default ":8080")
-meow
meow
-upstream string
upstream repo url (default "https://arch.sakamoto.pl/$repo/os/$arch")
Run the proxy, set the first line of /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist to:
Server = http://<address of this proxy>/$repo/os/$arch
Then, whenever a package is missing from the upstream repo, the proxy will try to serve it from the Arch Linux Archive. If it exists on the upstream repo, the proxy will just... proxy it.
- GH actions
- systemd service
- PKGBUILD
- AUR package