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Christian Heusel 2e666c1bee Remove references to the europe mirror

Since the mirror had unreliable network in the recent times we decided
to reboot it at the danger of it going away like the america and asia
boxes. As it did not come back after the reboot it's now time to say
goodbye.

Signed-off-by: Christian Heusel <christian@heusel.eu>

2025-12-20 19:15:24 +01:00

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Geo mirrors

DevOps team maintain a geo mirror across the world. The Geo mirror is public facing on geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com domain and it will resolve the closest to the location of the requester mirror.

Locations

Mirror	Location
https://berlin.mirror.pkgbuild.com/	Berlin (Germany)
https://frankfurt.mirror.pkgbuild.com/	Frankfurt (Germany)
https://johannesburg.mirror.pkgbuild.com/	Johannesburg (South Africa)
https://london.mirror.pkgbuild.com/	London (United Kingdom)
https://losangeles.mirror.pkgbuild.com/	Los Angeles (United States)
https://singapore.mirror.pkgbuild.com/	Singapore
https://taipei.mirror.pkgbuild.com/	Taipei (Taiwan)
https://umea.mirror.pkgbuild.com/	Umea (Sweden)

Requirements

Host with Arch Linux installed
root access provided
Enough storage to host repos / debugrepos (at least)
Bandwidth (depends on location)

Adding a new mirror box

Add new entries in hosts file under mirrors and geo_mirrors sections
Adjust terraform tf-stage1/archlinux.tf to include the IPv4 and IPv6 entries of the new server
Adjust terraform tf-stage1/templates.tf to include the IPv4 and IPv6 entries of the new server as a NS record for geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
Add a new files in host_vars
- host_vars/<fqdn>/misc Containing all the information for the mirror itself
- host_vars/<fqdn>/vault_wireguard.yml Containing the wireguard private key in encrypted vault

Ansible Playbooks execution

Playbook	Roles	Reason	Hosts (limits)	Comments
install_arch	All	Install Arch		Optional if you can
mirrors.yml	All	Setup mirror	`<fqdn>`
redirect.archlinux.org.yml	dyn_dns	Make TXT records
repos.archlinux.org.yml	dbscripts	Allow debug repo syncing
mirrors.yml	geo_dns	Add new domain to DNS	All other mirrors from geo.mirror
monitoring.archlinux.org.yml	wireguard,prometheus	Allow loki and prometheus to fetch data
archlinux.org.yml	postgres,wireguard	Allow wireguard IP to connect for Mirror check		Optional see Check Location below

Add mirror in geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

Add mirror IP and FQDN in archweb admin https://archlinux.org/admin/mirrors/mirror/ under the geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com entry.

Check Location (optional)

If you want the server to check for ping and stats create an entry in: https://archlinux.org/admin/mirrors/checklocation/

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