[arch-general] update

[Cédric Girard]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:07 PM, clemens fischer wrote:

> 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?
>

Clemens, what's the link between the text you're quoting and your answer?


> 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.
>
>
Mirror status provided by ArchLinux may be filtered by country. They have
freshness status included thus making them more useful (if the fastest
mirror has not been updated for a week it is not the best mirror to choose).

-- 
Cédric Girard