[arch-general] Howto find alternate ABS source download mirror?

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Karol Blazewicz
<karol.blazewicz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:05 AM, David C. Rankin
> <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>>  Where do I find a list of ABS download mirrors?
>>
>>  I was working with ffmpeg and the download from ftp.archlinux.org was
>> painfully slow due to the throttled connection. Is there somewhere mirrors
>> for ABS sources are listed? Usually it doesn't matter because most sources
>> are relatively small, but with packages like ffmpeg (50 meg), the throttling
>> difference can be extreme. Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
>>
>
> I think you're mixing things up, ABS doesn't hold sources, they are
> defined in the PKGBUILDS, they are just urls.
>

Sorry, should have checked the PKGBUILD in question first. indeed,
ffmpeg is one of the packages we have sources in
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/
Sorry for the noise.