add cache server support (!98) · Merge requests · Pacman / Pacman · GitLab

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Andrew Gregory requested to merge andrew/cache-servers into master Nov 22, 2023

An alternative implementation to !74 (closed) with the following differences:

No API breakage: cache servers are completely separate with a mirrored API
More intuitive behavior when a host is used as both a CacheServer and Server: !74 (closed) tracks cache status per-host, once a host is used as a CacheServer any use as a Server will be contaminated; this patch retains the separation
Better consistency with XferCommand: cache servers are skipped for DB's