On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Francis Gerund <ranrund@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I did re-generate the mirrorlist using rankmirrors, as shown on the arch > wiki "mirrors" page: > > Back up the existing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist: > > # cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup > > Edit /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup and uncomment mirrors for testing with > rankmirrors. > > Optionally run the following sed line to uncomment every mirror: > > # sed -i 's/^#Server/Server/' /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup > > Finally, rank the mirrors. Operand -n 6 means only output the 6 fastest > mirrors: > > # rankmirrors -n 6 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup > > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist > > > > The error mysteriously went away. > > But I do not seen to have rtmpdump installed. After reading about it, I > am still not sure what it is, or why it would be needed for rankmirrors. > Do the update mirrors use something called RTMP streams? > I shouldn't've thought ranking the mirrors by speed would inherently fix the problem -- although changing mirrors means there is a chance you will end up with newer ones. Or possibly the mirrors you ended up with had already caught up to the packages you were getting errors about. I would've used reflector, to generate a list of the most up-to-date mirrors, and then ranked those by download speed just to make things faster. [eschwartz@arch ~]$ cat ~/bin/mirrorgen reflector -c "United States" --age 2 --sort age --protocol http --save /tmp/mirrorgen && rankmirrors -v -n 5 /tmp/mirrorgen | sudo tee /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist -- Eli Schwartz
