[arch-general] update

[clemens fischer]

Cédric Girard wrote:

> 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?

"... benefit or contribute ...":  the thread had to do with slow
mirrors.  So I mentioned rankmirrors (@ pacman).

> 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).

That is true.  I didn't think of this.  By the way:  using
community/jshon it is possible to script something up with a more generic
tool, eg.

$ wget -q -O '/dl/linux-archlinux.org-mirrors.json' \
  'https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/json/'
$ for i in {0..555};do echo $(
  jshon -e urls -e $i -e score -u -p -e country -u -p -e url -u \
  < /dl/linux-archlinux.org-mirrors.json
) || break;done |
  egrep -v '^(undef|null)' |
  egrep '[[:space:]]Germany[[:space:]]' |
  sort -k1,1n |
  uniq |
  head -n7
1.087776 Germany http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/archlinux/
1.128424 Germany http://archlinux.limun.org/
1.206714 Germany http://mirror.devnu11.net/archlinux/
1.281882 Germany http://arch.mirrors.tuxdroid.org/
1.663009 Germany http://mirror.selfnet.de/archlinux/
1.714045 Germany http://mirrors.n-ix.net/archlinux/
1.893226 Germany ftp://arch.mirrors.tuxdroid.org/

I take it the object member "score" combines freshness.


clemens