[arch-general] update error(?)

[Francis Gerund]

Just using reflector only, as per the wiki mirror page, wouldn't this be
simpler:

sudo reflector --verbose --country 'United States' -l 200 -p http --sort
rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

It *seems* to work okay from here, and does not explicitly require use of
rankmirrors or a mirrorgen file.

But, per the bug report mentioned, should mirror.umd.edu be commented out
(temporarily) in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist?

(BTW, I still don't know what rtmpdump would have to do with mirrors and
updating Arch.)


On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Mark Lee <mark at markelee.com> wrote:

> On Sunday, April 19, 2015 01:58:52 PM Eli Schwartz wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Francis Gerund <ranrund at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > I did re-generate the mirrorlist using rankmirrors, as shown on the
> arch
> > > wiki "mirrors" page:
> > >
> > > Back up the existing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist:
> > >
> > > # cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup
> > >
> > > Edit /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup and uncomment mirrors for testing
> > > with
> > > rankmirrors.
> > >
> > > Optionally run the following sed line to uncomment every mirror:
> > >
> > > # sed -i 's/^#Server/Server/' /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup
> > >
> > > Finally, rank the mirrors. Operand -n 6 means only output the 6 fastest
> > > mirrors:
> > >
> > > # rankmirrors -n 6 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup >
> > > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The error mysteriously went away.
> > >
> > > But I  do not seen to have rtmpdump installed.  After reading about
> it, I
> > > am still not sure what it is, or why it would be needed for
> rankmirrors.
> > > Do the update mirrors use something called RTMP streams?
> >
> > I shouldn't've thought ranking the mirrors by speed would inherently fix
> > the problem -- although changing mirrors means there is a chance you will
> > end up with newer ones.
> > Or possibly the mirrors you ended up with had already caught up to the
> > packages you were getting errors about.
> >
> > I would've used reflector, to generate a list of the most up-to-date
> > mirrors, and then ranked those by download speed just to make things
> faster.
> >
> > [eschwartz at arch ~]$ cat ~/bin/mirrorgen
> > reflector -c "United States" --age 2 --sort age --protocol http --save
> > /tmp/mirrorgen && rankmirrors -v -n 5 /tmp/mirrorgen | sudo tee
> > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
> >
> >
> > -- Eli Schwartz
>
> This is a known issue regarding the way Arch syncs mirrors. There's even a
> bug
> report for a particular mirror
> <
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/44374?project=1&cat%5B0%5D=31&string=pacman-mirrorlist
> >