On 10-10-2011 23:13, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Karol Blazewicz > <karol.blazewicz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:05 AM, David C. Rankin >> <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Guys, >>> >>> Where do I find a list of ABS download mirrors? >>> >>> I was working with ffmpeg and the download from ftp.archlinux.org was >>> painfully slow due to the throttled connection. Is there somewhere mirrors >>> for ABS sources are listed? Usually it doesn't matter because most sources >>> are relatively small, but with packages like ffmpeg (50 meg), the throttling >>> difference can be extreme. Thanks. >>> >>> -- >>> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. >>> >> >> I think you're mixing things up, ABS doesn't hold sources, they are >> defined in the PKGBUILDS, they are just urls. >> > > Sorry, should have checked the PKGBUILD in question first. indeed, > ffmpeg is one of the packages we have sources in > ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/ > Sorry for the noise. > abs -t might do the trick for you, it will sync via tarball from the mirror you use for packages. At least it's what abs -h says and what is defined in /etc/abs.conf Never tried it myself though. -- Mauro Santos
