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

[Zack]

pacKage manager?

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:24 AM, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net> wrote:
> 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
>