On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch@gmail.com> wrote:

For some reason rankmirrors seems to really hate the arch-games mirrorlist. I don't know whether it's a bug or whether there's some sort of server misconfiguration.

[root@Muspelheimr pacman.d]# rankmirrors -t archgames-mirrorlist Querying servers, this may take some time...  *   *   *   *  Servers sorted by time (seconds): http://pseudoform.org/arch-games/games/i686 #(Nürnberg, Germany. Maintainer: svenstaro) : 1.01 http://repo.exigen.org/arch/games/i686 #(Düsseldorf, Germany. Maintainer: s4msung) : unreachable http://repo.archlinux-gaming.org/i686 #(Toronto, Canada. Primary mirror) : unreachable ftp://mirror.selfnet.de/arch-games/i686 #(Stuttgart, Germany. Maintainer: hrist) : unreachable

All of the above servers respond to ping and their repos can be browsed manually and synced with using pacman.

So let's compare a "normal" mirror location with those from arch-games and what we know works. normal: ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/i686 works: http://pseudoform.org/arch-games/games/i686 not work: http://repo.exigen.org/arch/games/i686 rankmirrors assumes the repository name is the third component from the end; the normal URL would thus produce "core" and look for "core.db.tar.gz" and the working arch-games URL would see "arch-games" and look for "arch-games.db.tar.gz". The non-working URLs thus are guessing the db name incorrectly; the one I listed above would look for "arch.db.tar.gz" and fail to find it, thus the unreachable in the output. I cross-posted this to pacman-dev, but we have a bit of a oddity here as the rankmirrors python script was recently replaced by a bash version, and it does an absolutely abominable job on this mirrorlist due to the inline comments: $ rankmirrors test-mirrorlist # Server list generated by rankmirrors on 2010-03-20 # # Arch Games repository mirrorlist # url `' is malformed. I'm not super thrilled about this regression. Either way, I think we should probably add an option to the scripts to use a designated file as the target for rankmirrors testing; this way you could specify a DB filename or any other file as the target to test against. -Dan