David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > The mirrorlist file that you see reference 3 times in the pacman.conf is > telling pacman which mirror to use. IIRC, by default the mirror list > points to the main arch site, but that site intentionally has bandwidth > limitations placed on it in order to encourage people's use of the > mirror sites. So edit the mirror list making a different mirror have > higher priority (i.e., appearing earlier in the file) and that should > solve the problem. > > For example, my mirrorlist file lists a load of mirrors, all commented > out. Then at the end of the file I added: > > Server = http://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64 > Server = http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/x86_64 > Server = http://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64 > > HTH, > > DR > More than helps, that was exactly what I needed. All said, pacman isn't that much different than zypper on openSuSE, I just have to learn its nuances. (now if I could just learn to not automatically type a k in pacman, I'd have it made ;-) Thanks also Johannes, I'll give the rankmirrors script a go. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
