On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:40 AM, vixsomnis <vixsomnis@fastmail.com> wrote:

On December 10, 2014 10:19:12 AM EST, Jude DaShiell < jdashiel@shellworld.net> wrote:

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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 this

will be of no interest to foreign users of archlinux.

jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net> Twitter: @jdashiel

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

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 7:28 PM, vixsomnis <vixsomnis@fastmail.com> wrote:

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

rankmirrors pings each server and times the response speed, which I can attest has sped up my updating. Also, those options can be skipped altogether, and reflector will simply return all the mirrors -- which is what you would get anyway. You should at least filter it by country though -- unless you don't mind downloading from marginally <s>faster</s> slower Taiwanese mirrors instead of the one 25 miles away. (or possibly on-campus?) -- Eli Schwartz