cnf-sync fails because mirror offline

[oberon-manjaro]

cnf-sync tries to sync with mirror.hatcolorsoft.com but this url seems to be offline ... Is this a temporary issue or should the url be updated?

[metti]

As commented in 2015 in the AUR [1], there will be the day that the mirror is not available anymore.

A cnf mirror can be created with cnf-populate based on an existing arch mirror. Unfortunately that requires a full mirror.
When the tool was created, that was the only viable way of implementing that. Nowadays with the the existence of the .files.tar.gz files (e.g. [2]) on mirrors, that work can be done locally during cnf-sync or if somebody wants to operate a mirror (I would vote for the first option). In addition it could be done for the mirrors and repositories that are locally enabled for the user.

Patches welcome and I am happy to help!

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/command-not-found/?O=20&PP=10#comment-516985
[2] http://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/core.files.tar.gz