Just using reflector only, as per the wiki mirror page, wouldn't this be simpler: sudo reflector --verbose --country 'United States' -l 200 -p http --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist It *seems* to work okay from here, and does not explicitly require use of rankmirrors or a mirrorgen file. But, per the bug report mentioned, should mirror.umd.edu be commented out (temporarily) in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist? (BTW, I still don't know what rtmpdump would have to do with mirrors and updating Arch.) On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Mark Lee <mark@markelee.com> wrote:
On Sunday, April 19, 2015 01:58:52 PM Eli Schwartz wrote:
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Francis Gerund <ranrund@gmail.com> wrote:
I did re-generate the mirrorlist using rankmirrors, as shown on the arch wiki "mirrors" page:
Back up the existing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist:
# cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup
Edit /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup and uncomment mirrors for testing with rankmirrors.
Optionally run the following sed line to uncomment every mirror:
# sed -i 's/^#Server/Server/' /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup
Finally, rank the mirrors. Operand -n 6 means only output the 6 fastest mirrors:
# rankmirrors -n 6 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
The error mysteriously went away.
But I do not seen to have rtmpdump installed. After reading about it, I am still not sure what it is, or why it would be needed for rankmirrors. Do the update mirrors use something called RTMP streams?
I shouldn't've thought ranking the mirrors by speed would inherently fix the problem -- although changing mirrors means there is a chance you will end up with newer ones. Or possibly the mirrors you ended up with had already caught up to the packages you were getting errors about.
I would've used reflector, to generate a list of the most up-to-date mirrors, and then ranked those by download speed just to make things faster.
[eschwartz@arch ~]$ cat ~/bin/mirrorgen reflector -c "United States" --age 2 --sort age --protocol http --save /tmp/mirrorgen && rankmirrors -v -n 5 /tmp/mirrorgen | sudo tee /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
-- Eli Schwartz
This is a known issue regarding the way Arch syncs mirrors. There's even a bug report for a particular mirror < https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/44374?project=1&cat%5B0%5D=31&string=pacman-mirrorlist