[pacman-dev] makepkg FS#6708 patch

[Scott Horowitz]

As per FS#6708, here is a patch against makepkg to download the first
50kb of the db.tar.gz file. Feel free to tweak the number, I thought
it was a good balance between getting an accurate number and making
dialup users wait.

--- /usr/bin/rankmirrors	2007-03-25 20:07:04.000000000 -0600
+++ rankmirrors	2007-03-26 22:39:23.000000000 -0600
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@

 def talkToServer(serverUrl):
     opener = urllib2.build_opener()
-    tmp = opener.open(serverUrl).read()
+    # retrieve first 50,000 bytes only
+    tmp = opener.open(serverUrl).read(50000)

 def getFuncToTime(serverUrl):
     return lambda : talkToServer(serverUrl)
@@ -139,8 +140,18 @@
         elif options.times:
             print ' * ',
         sys.stdout.flush()
+
+        # add db.tar.gz to server name
+        try:
+            splitted2 = serverUrl.split('/')
+            dbFileName = splitted2[len(splitted2) - 3] + '.db.tar.gz'
+            if serverUrl[-1] != '/':
+                dbFileName = '/' + dbFileName
+        except:
+            dbFileName = ''
+
         try:
-            serverToTime[serverUrl] = timeCmd(getFuncToTime(serverUrl))
+            serverToTime[serverUrl] = timeCmd(getFuncToTime(serverUrl
+ dbFileName))
             if options.verbose:
                 try:
                     print "%.2f" % serverToTime[serverUrl]