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Potential use case: setting "repository_version" on the distribution freezes the registry

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
52/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
python, rust
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by locating get_rvc() and trace how repository_version requests currently reach the proxy fallback. The change is complete when setting repository_version prevents fallback requests and keeps the registry from being modified by missing content.

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Description

Feature Triage-Needed

Setting repository_version on a Distribution would currently be a useless configuration, because requests for content not in the repo would still fall back to the proxy and modify the repository behind your back - functionally identical if not strictly worse than just setting repository in the first place.

What we could do instead is disable the fallback entirely if repository_version was set, turning the registry "frozen"

This would be simple to do with a tweak to get_rvc().

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