[arch-general] archlinux updates error reduction

[Eli Schwartz]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:40 AM, vixsomnis <vixsomnis at fastmail.com> wrote:

> On December 10, 2014 10:19:12 AM EST, Jude DaShiell <
> jdashiel at shellworld.net> wrote:
> >I commented out mirror.abscission.net in my /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
> >since
> >so far as I can tell that server runs too slow and causes yaourt to
> >error
> >out on it persistently.  I'm using servers in the United States so this
> >
> >will be of no interest to foreign users of archlinux.
> >
> >
> >
> >jude <jdashiel at shellworld.net> Twitter: @jdashiel
>
> I find using reflector to sort by speed, then latest updated, tends to
> work just fine.
>
> It'd definitely filter out any unresponsive servers.
> --
> vixsomnis
>

I would use rankmirrors as well, this is the mirrorgen script I use:

reflector -c "United States" --sort age --protocol http --save
/tmp/mirrorgen && rankmirrors -v -n 5 /tmp/mirrorgen | sudo tee
/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist


-- Eli Schwartz