Just using reflector only, as per the wiki mirror page, wouldn't this be simpler: sudo reflector --verbose --country 'United States' -l 200 -p http --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist It *seems* to work okay from here, and does not explicitly require use of rankmirrors or a mirrorgen file. But, per the bug report mentioned, should mirror.umd.edu be commented out (temporarily) in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist? (BTW, I still don't know what rtmpdump would have to do with mirrors and updating Arch.) On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Mark Lee <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sunday, April 19, 2015 01:58:52 PM Eli Schwartz wrote: > > 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 > > This is a known issue regarding the way Arch syncs mirrors. There's even a > bug > report for a particular mirror > < > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/44374?project=1&cat%5B0%5D=31&string=pacman-mirrorlist > >
