Ranking mirrors by package availability

George3d6 · 2019-04-17 06:37:22

Is there a way to rank mirrors by how many packages are available rather than by speed ?

The main problem I have with arch right now is that loads of installs take me 5+ minutes because most of my mirrors seem to lack one of the packages required. The way I generate my list is with: `reflector --latest 200 --protocol http --protocol https --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist`

seth · 2019-04-17 06:54:20

sort "age" or "score"?
I'd try including less "latest" mirrors (I've got 10…)

Docbroke · 2019-04-17 07:04:13

If mirror is recently synced it should have all the packages. Please correct me if that's wrong.

seth · 2019-04-17 07:25:45

He's pulling the 200 mirrors synced latest and then sorts them by the download rate. This gets you fast but possibly old servers.
(Therefore I'd limit the number of "latest" servers and sort those by speed)

The completion defaults to 100% but that info could be slightly dated (ie. a server is 100% though it's not gotten the very last syncs, dunno)

Docbroke · 2019-04-17 07:37:59

I think instead of using latest, age is better criteria. I use "--age 1 --sort rate -n 10". This gives only fastest 10 mirrors that have synced in last hour.

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#1 2019-04-17 06:37:22

Ranking mirrors by package availability

#2 2019-04-17 06:54:20

Re: Ranking mirrors by package availability

#3 2019-04-17 07:04:13

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#4 2019-04-17 07:25:45

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