On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Jesse Juhani Jaara <jesse.jaara@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ti, 2011-03-08 kello 18:39 -0500, Thomas Misilo kirjoitti: > >> Good Evening, >> >> I was trying to use a custom mirror during an install today, it is only a HTTP server currently. Is this a problem, does it need to be ftp? As the mirror does work with pacman after install. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Tom > > There are no limitations on the protocol used, as long as the program > used for the downloading supports it. > By default atleas ftp, http and local repositories are supported. and btw ... if your talking about a full blown local mirror (where you sync packages daily or whatever), _DON'T_ follow the relevant article in the wiki -- that script breaks symlinks to the pool directory (shared packages across architecture) and you will end up downloading nearly 2x what you should (almost ~45GB IIRC for just the main repos!!) because `*.any.tar.xz` packages, and possibly others, will be duplicated. i found this out the hard way by not testing well enough before initiating the first sync. i was able to write a script and repair it, but a word of caution at least. i've been meaning to update the wiki with my own scriptfoo that actually works pretty nice but i forgot about it until, well, just now :-) C Anthony
