[arch-general] update

[clemens fischer]

On Tue-2011/10/11-07:12 C Anthony Risinger wrote:

> On Oct 10, 2011 7:41 PM, "Martin" <...> wrote:
>
>> [spanish] ... [/spanish]
>
> ... and then no one else can benefit or contribute to this out-of-band
> conversation?

Why yes!  instead of "reflector", pacman's own "rankmirrors" script
provides a speed ranking of mirrors _as seen from the ocal site_ instead
of the archlinux json interface, which runs server-side and seems to
favour japanese and american mirrors.

eg.

  rankmirrors -t /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist


clemens