Serve stale virtual members while they refresh (#167)

Virtual merges expire after 60s and the next request blocks on every member. One slow member (a large github_rpm remote) makes the re-merge outlast dnf's 30s timeout.

- add `serve_stale` to remotes (model, v2 API, migration 0008, UI, TUI), default false
- serve a flagged member's last good fetch to rpm/deb/alpine merges at once
- refresh it in the background, single-flighted, detached from the request
- block on the member again once its copy is over an hour old, or the flag is off
- prune copies with their merge cache; drop refreshes for evicted entries

Reviewed-on: #167
Co-authored-by: unkin-agent <unkin-agent@unkin.net>
Co-committed-by: unkin-agent <unkin-agent@unkin.net>
This commit was merged in pull request #167.
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2026-10-25 15:44:16 +11:00
committed by BenVincent
parent f0ee593164
commit e5313342ba
10 changed files with 459 additions and 11 deletions
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@@ -416,6 +416,25 @@ func TestServerRemoteUpdateAndVirtualCRUD(t *testing.T) {
}
}
func TestServerRemoteServeStaleRoundTrip(t *testing.T) {
requireStack(t)
if resp, b := req(t, "POST", "/api/v2/remotes", `{"name":"srv-ss","package_type":"rpm","repo_type":"remote","base_url":"https://a.example.com","serve_stale":true}`); resp.StatusCode != 201 {
t.Fatalf("create remote: %d %s", resp.StatusCode, b)
}
defer req(t, "DELETE", "/api/v2/remotes/srv-ss", "")
get := func(want string) {
t.Helper()
if _, b := req(t, "GET", "/api/v2/remotes/srv-ss", ""); !strings.Contains(string(b), want) {
t.Errorf("get remote: want %s in %s", want, b)
}
}
get(`"serve_stale":true`)
if resp, b := req(t, "PUT", "/api/v2/remotes/srv-ss", `{"package_type":"rpm","base_url":"https://a.example.com"}`); resp.StatusCode != 200 {
t.Fatalf("update remote: %d %s", resp.StatusCode, b)
}
get(`"serve_stale":false`)
}
func TestServerLocalRemoveAndMissing(t *testing.T) {
requireStack(t)
req(t, "POST", "/api/v2/remotes", `{"name":"srv-rm","package_type":"generic","repo_type":"local"}`)