On December 10, 2014 8:17:25 PM EST, Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >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 I'm not familiar with rankmirrors, but in my experience reflector sorts them perfectly, and applies as generally as possible, no matter what country: # reflector -f 1000 -l 1000 -n 1000 -p http > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist There aren't 1000 mirrors, so that number is arbitrarily large. Anyway, this is my preferred approach. Doesn't get much simpler. -- vixsomnis
