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Replicant mirrors all the repositories it uses in Replicant source code.

AOSP is a bit more complex than the other repositories because we have things like that:

  <project path="dalvik" name="platform/dalvik" groups="pdk-cw-fs,pdk-fs" remote="aosp" />
  [...]
  <project path="device/generic/arm64" name="device/generic/arm64" groups="pdk" remote="aosp" />

So here the URL depth changes between different repositories.

With Replicant 6 and earlier we simply hosted device_generic_arm64 and platform_dalvik.

That simplifies a lot the server configuration but completely breaks automatic rebases in the manifest repository.

So right now we have the following configuration in the server:

• We host device_generic_arm64 and platform_dalvik
• We redirect device/generic/arm64 to device_generic_arm64 manually with things like that:
  Redirect /mirrors/AOSP/device/generic/arm64 /mirrors/AOSP/device_generic-arm64

This worked fine because the rules are fixed. However it has huge downsides too:

• we need to remember to add a rules for each new AOSP repository addition, and we will probably forget to do it at some point
• We end up with a huge ruleset