On Monday 02 Aug 2010 at 08:48 Kazuo Teramoto wrote: > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:33 AM, Peter Lewis <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > thread just prompted me to check and yeah I hadn't had anything for at > > least a few days. I just did a sort of Monte-Carlo test, by switching > > mirrors in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and suddenly got a whole load of > > updates. > > Well... we dont have so much mirrors so a monte carlo sampling is > needed, we can do it in a deterministic way.... Indeed :-) That's just me trying to get an indicative result to show there's something to investigate. Or laziness. Probably that, actually. > I use reflector for this, its choose mirrors by "updatedness", and can > sort using rankmirrors Thanks for the tip. Pete.