diff --git a/config.go b/config.go
index 6adc258..2a2f985 100644
--- a/config.go
+++ b/config.go
@@ -7,10 +7,11 @@ import (
 )
 
 type Config struct {
-	CacheRoot string     `toml:"cache_root"`
-	MirrorURL string     `toml:"mirror_url"`
-	Port      string     `toml:"port"`
-	Auth      AuthConfig `toml:"auth"`
+	CacheRoot     string     `toml:"cache_root"`
+	MirrorURL     string     `toml:"mirror_url"`
+	MirroredRepos []string   `toml:"mirrored_repos"`
+	Port          string     `toml:"port"`
+	Auth          AuthConfig `toml:"auth"`
 }
 
 type AuthConfig struct {
diff --git a/deploy/pkgstash.toml.example b/deploy/pkgstash.toml.example
index a5447bb..dd1d326 100644
--- a/deploy/pkgstash.toml.example
+++ b/deploy/pkgstash.toml.example
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 cache_root = "/home/ewpt3ch/dev/pacman-cache-server/tmprepo"
 mirror_url  = "https://us.mirrors.cicku.me/archlinux/"
+# array of upstream repos this server caches see pacman.conf
+# or pacman docs for more info <core, extra, multilib>
+mirrored_repos = ["core", "extra"]
 port        = "8090"
 
 [auth]
diff --git a/internal/cache/cache.go b/internal/cache/cache.go
index 41d3ec4..032d210 100644
--- a/internal/cache/cache.go
+++ b/internal/cache/cache.go
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ type Cache struct {
 	client        http.Client
 }
 
-func NewCache(cacheRoot string, mirrorURL string) *Cache {
+func NewCache(cacheRoot string, mirrorURL string, mirroredRepos []string) *Cache {
 	transport := &http.Transport{
 		DialContext: (&net.Dialer{
 			Timeout: 5 * time.Second,
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ func NewCache(cacheRoot string, mirrorURL string) *Cache {
 	return &Cache{
 		cacheRoot:     cacheRoot,
 		mirrorURL:     mirrorURL,
-		mirroredRepos: []string{"core", "extra", "multilib"},
+		mirroredRepos: mirroredRepos,
 		client: http.Client{
 			Timeout:   15 * time.Second,
 			Transport: transport,
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 6f4f634..b833d8c 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ func main() {
 		log.Fatal(err)
 	}
 
-	c := cache.NewCache(cfg.CacheRoot, cfg.MirrorURL)
+	c := cache.NewCache(cfg.CacheRoot, cfg.MirrorURL, cfg.MirroredRepos)
 	srv := &Server{cfg: cfg, c: c}
 
 	mux := http.NewServeMux()
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ func main() {
 		Handler: mux,
 	}
 
+	log.Printf("serving pkgstash root: %v on port: %v", cfg.CacheRoot, cfg.Port)
 	log.Fatal(httpServe.ListenAndServe())
 
 }