[arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format

[Jason Reardon]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 13/08/10 07:09, Jason Reardon wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Erik Johnson<archtaku at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>  Can you post a copy of the output? I'm using reflector and rankmirrors,
>>> and
>>> I get this:
>>>
>>> # 2010-08-12 15:33
>>> # generated by reflector
>>> # ranked by rankmirrors
>>> Server = ftp://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
>>> Server = ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
>>> Server = http://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/$repo/os/$arch
>>> Server = http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
>>> Server = http://mirror.yandex.ru/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
>>> Server =
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
>>>
>>>
>>> These are obviously not reachable URLs, but pacman fills in $repo and
>>> $arch
>>> from pacman.conf so it's working just fine for me.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Jason Reardon<aetherfly87 at gmail.com
>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>>  Worked for me on the latest mirrorlist release.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Mathias Huber<huber at mathiashuber.de
>>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Dear Archers,
>>>>>
>>>>> is it true that rankmirrors can't handle mirrorlist urls like
>>>>> ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch?
>>>>>
>>>>> While pacman works fine with this format, rankmirrors produces
>>>>>
>>>> unreachable
>>>>
>>>>> URLs.
>>>>>
>>>>> Or am I misunderstanding something here?
>>>>>
>>>>> Rock on,
>>>>> Mathias
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> -Erik
>>>
>>>
>>>  "For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to
>>> persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." --Carl Sagan
>>>
>>>
>> Here's my first six. The gatech one didn't have a package at one point,
>> rankmirrors sorted the whole US list.
>>
>> Server =
>>
>> ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
>> Server = ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
>> Server =
>> ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
>> Server = ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
>> Server = ftp://lug.mtu.edu/archlinux/ftpfull/$repo/os/$arch
>> Server = ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/$repo/os/$arch
>>
>>
>>
> They are in alphabetical order...   This is known and fixed in git.  We
> will probably make a new pacman release soon.
>
> Allan
>
>
>
>
>
Hah, I never noticed.