On December 10, 2014 8:17:25 PM EST, Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:40 AM, vixsomnis <vixsomnis@fastmail.com> wrote:
I commented out mirror.abscission.net in my /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist since so far as I can tell that server runs too slow and causes yaourt to error out on it persistently. I'm using servers in the United States so
On December 10, 2014 10:19:12 AM EST, Jude DaShiell < jdashiel@shellworld.net> wrote: this
will be of no interest to foreign users of archlinux.
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I find using reflector to sort by speed, then latest updated, tends to work just fine.
It'd definitely filter out any unresponsive servers. -- vixsomnis
I would use rankmirrors as well, this is the mirrorgen script I use:
reflector -c "United States" --sort age --protocol http --save /tmp/mirrorgen && rankmirrors -v -n 5 /tmp/mirrorgen | sudo tee /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
-- Eli Schwartz
I'm not familiar with rankmirrors, but in my experience reflector sorts them perfectly, and applies as generally as possible, no matter what country: # reflector -f 1000 -l 1000 -n 1000 -p http > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist There aren't 1000 mirrors, so that number is arbitrarily large. Anyway, this is my preferred approach. Doesn't get much simpler. -- vixsomnis