Add workaround for AUR downtime, with using github aur mirror

Open ptr1337 opened this issue 2 months ago • 2 comments

Hey!

In the recent months the AUR has been affected over and over again from DDoS attacks, which resulted into downtime there. This impacts the user expierence heavily.

Archlinux does provide a mirror of the AUR git repository, which utilizes the branches of each package.

The Github URL: https://github.com/archlinux/aur

Oct 06 '25 14:10 ptr1337

For metadata at least I use my own server, but it's true that pulling the actual packages comes from the AUR itself. There's potential to allow a fallback.

Oct 06 '25 22:10 fosskers

Heh!.. Maybe, the Microsoft is that who DDOSing Arch (aiming to move AUR to github)?..

IT'S A JOKE! Because, I can't find out any reasonable explanation for this outrage.

Oct 08 '25 06:10 roussak