On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:05:32 -0500 "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. > You can check out at the same commit that the tarball is from the git tree, or just grab the latest git version. It is fairly "safe" as there isn't often any breakage in the ffmpeg tree.