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

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Mon Oct 10 19:34:23 EDT 2011


On 11/10/11 08:05, David C. Rankin 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.
>

That is a snapshot taken from upstream git by the packager and then 
hosted on our server so a constant source is available.  So there is no 
alternative location.

Allan


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