This role will still handle setting up nginx and rsyncd, due to specific
configuration requirements these services have.
We're also effectively relieving build.archlinux.org of rsyncd duties as
it is not something it should be doing anyway.
These roles are very similar and can be merged into a single new role.
Note: The archive mirror is changed from a 4-hour sync to minutely for
conformity with the other two mirrors. In practice this doesn't matter
as it was already taking over 4 hours to finish and was starting again
right after its previous run.
These are used to signal the start of the document in a stream of many
documents. As Ansible only supports one YAML document per file this is
unnecessary. About a third of our YAML documents already lacked these.
We had a GeoIP mirror in the past based on nginx and its GeoIP module,
but it didn't perform very well, due to the high latency (asking a
central server for the package and then redirected to the closest
mirror).
One of the reasons for offering this service, is so we can relieve
mirror.pkgbuild.com which is burning a ton of traffic (50TB/month),
likely due to it being the default mirror in our Docker image. Another
reason is so we can offer a link to our arch-boxes images in libosinfo
(used by gnome-boxes, virt-install and virt-manager), with good enough
performance for most users.
This time we take a different approach and use a DNS based solution,
which means the latency penalty is only paid once (the first DNS
request). The downside is that the mirrors must have a valid certificate
for the same domain name, which makes using third-party mirrors a
challenge. So for now, we are just using the sponsored mirorrs
controlled by the DevOps team.
Fix #101
