[arch-general] pacman mirrorlist update

[Eli Schwartz]

On 6/19/15, Martti Kühne <mysatyre at gmail.com> wrote:
> I hope I'm not causing traffic jams for running [0] after
> pacman-mirrorlist updates.
> I'm planning to write some tools that would generally make handling of
> .pacnew files more accessible, too.
>
> cheers!
> mar77i
>
> [0] https://github.com/mar77i/bulk77i/blob/master/renew_mirrorlist.c

I and no doubt others as well simply use rankmirrors with reflector.
About weeklyish for me at least.
Since all it does is connect to each server and test the speed, I
don't see the problem, surely they should be more worried that I
compulsively sync pacman multiple times a day. :-P

-- Eli Schwartz