[arch-general] Repository download speed? Any way to improve?

[David C. Rankin]

David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> 
> The mirrorlist file that you see reference 3 times in the pacman.conf is
> telling pacman which mirror to use.  IIRC, by default the mirror list
> points to the main arch site, but that site intentionally has bandwidth
> limitations placed on it in order to encourage people's use of the
> mirror sites.  So edit the mirror list making a different mirror have
> higher priority (i.e., appearing earlier in the file) and that should
> solve the problem.
> 
> For example, my mirrorlist file lists a load of mirrors, all commented
> out.  Then at the end of the file I added:
> 
> Server = http://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64
> Server = http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/x86_64
> Server = http://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64
> 
> HTH,
> 
> DR
> 

	More than helps, that was exactly what I needed. All said, pacman isn't that
much different than zypper on openSuSE, I just have to learn its nuances. (now
if I could just learn to not automatically type a k in pacman, I'd have it made ;-)

	Thanks also Johannes, I'll give the rankmirrors script a go.

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