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#1 2007-12-03 19:54:06

loz_hurst
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From: Warwickshire, UK
Registered: 2006-08-20
Posts: 4

Out-of-date mirrors

I'd just completed a net-install of Arch, selecting my geographically closest mirror during the install (which made sense at the time), and tried to install the necessary graphics driver for my card only to discover it was not available. A quick look at the mirror revealed the reason - it's not been updated since August!

Is there something that can be done about this (like removing the mirror from the pacman package)?

I now have to wait another day for the 240MB of updates from a mirror that has been updated in the last 4 months to download.

The mirror in question: http://ftp.parrswood.manchester.sch.uk/ … linux.org/
(note it doesn't even have the change to "core"!)

Yours extreamly annoyedly,
-Laurence

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#2 2007-12-04 00:51:56

peets
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From: Montreal
Registered: 2007-01-11
Posts: 936
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Re: Out-of-date mirrors

you can try the rankmirrors script. Just make sure you use the same mirror for each repo.

[peets@shrek ~]$ rankmirrors
Usage: rankmirrors [options] MIRRORFILE | URL

Ranks pacman mirrors by their connection and opening speed. Pacman mirror
files are located in /etc/pacman.d/. It can also rank one mirror if the URL is
provided.

Options:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  -n NUM         number of servers to output, 0 for all
  -t, --times    only output mirrors and their response times
  -u, --url      test a specific url
  -v, --verbose  be verbose in ouptut

Last edited by peets (2007-12-04 00:53:17)

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#3 2007-12-04 02:15:35

brebs
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Registered: 2007-04-03
Posts: 3,742

Re: Out-of-date mirrors

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#4 2007-12-04 02:19:03

Snowman
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From: Montreal, Canada
Registered: 2004-08-20
Posts: 5,212

Re: Out-of-date mirrors

That mirror will be removed in the next pacman update (in a few weeks?). It has already been remove from git but there hasn't been any pacman update since the mirror list cleanup.

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