On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:40 AM, vixsomnis <vixsomnis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On December 10, 2014 10:19:12 AM EST, Jude DaShiell < > jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >I commented out mirror.abscission.net in my /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist > >since > >so far as I can tell that server runs too slow and causes yaourt to > >error > >out on it persistently. I'm using servers in the United States so this > > > >will be of no interest to foreign users of archlinux. > > > > > > > >jude <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Twitter: @jdashiel > > I find using reflector to sort by speed, then latest updated, tends to > work just fine. > > It'd definitely filter out any unresponsive servers. > -- > vixsomnis > I would use rankmirrors as well, this is the mirrorgen script I use: reflector -c "United States" --sort age --protocol http --save /tmp/mirrorgen && rankmirrors -v -n 5 /tmp/mirrorgen | sudo tee /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist -- Eli Schwartz
