Allan,
While the pacman part of the conference is over, I just ran into an issue that would fit the pacman improvement segment.
When updating, if on the first repo, the first mirror selected times-out, then mark that repo failed for the remaining repo checks so you don't sit through two more timeouts on a repo that is known failed at that point.
If arch.mirror.constant.com was down yesterday, I could have made the segment :)
thanks everybody for the conference! in addition to the content (and getting to see at least a few people's faces), the production details were great.
When updating, if on the first repo, the first mirror selected times-out, then mark that repo failed for the remaining repo checks so you don't sit through two more timeouts on a repo that is known failed at that point.
something like this would be nice (where the "marking" would survive for "this run" of pacman, and maybe really means, "move to the end of the list of mirrors to try").
cheers, Greg
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