[arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format

[Jude DaShiell]

One of the more important fields missing from many Linux distros mirror 
lists is the geographical location field that would provide a country and 
a state/province for each mirror.  That information is stored in some data 
base on the internet, but not everybody who looks at a mirror list for the 
first time is necessarily going to know which tool to send the list 
through to get all those geographical locations appended to that mirror 
list.  A guess on my part would be the whois data base but what command to 
run to get the capacity the url, and the geographic locations out in a 
mirror list and only get that information I don't yet know.On Thu, 12 Aug 
2010, Jason Reardon wrote:

> 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.
>
>