Can you post a copy of the output? I'm using reflector and rankmirrors, and I get this: # 2010-08-12 15:33 # generated by reflector # ranked by rankmirrors Server = ftp://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirror.yandex.ru/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch These are obviously not reachable URLs, but pacman fills in $repo and $arch from pacman.conf so it's working just fine for me. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Jason Reardon <aetherfly87@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Worked for me on the latest mirrorlist release. > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Mathias Huber <huber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >wrote: > > > Dear Archers, > > > > is it true that rankmirrors can't handle mirrorlist urls like > > ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch? > > > > While pacman works fine with this format, rankmirrors produces > unreachable > > URLs. > > > > Or am I misunderstanding something here? > > > > Rock on, > > Mathias > > > > > -- -Erik "For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." --Carl Sagan
