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

[David Rosenstrauch]

David C. Rankin wrote:
> 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.


Cool.  Glad you were able to get up and running quickly.


> 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 ;-)

Why on earth would you ever have learned to spell pacman with a 
"k"?!?!?!?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacman   :-)

DR