Bash port of rankmirrors

bruenig · 2009-08-08 05:05:12

The rankmirrors currently depends on python. That is absurd. I rewrote it using bash+coreutils+curl. Curl is a much more comfortable depend than python I do say. If this is up to snuff, I think it should replace the existing rankmirrors in pacman.

It should work the exact same as the previous one with a few differences:

1. When you KeyboardInterrupt, it still shoots out the mirrors it has timed in a sorted manner like the python one, but the behavior is slightly different if you are attempting to redirect that output to a file. I don't think this is significant and shouldn't really affect anyone, but it is there.

2. The rankmirrors -u option works now with a literal url like "http://mirrors.gigenet.com/archlinux/core/os/i686" and a url with the repo variable still there like 'http://mirrors.gigenet.com/archlinux/$repo/os/i686' So this actually adds functionality to the script. Woot!

3. Times are calculated to the milisecond and not the hundredth of a second.

Other than that, it appears to work just the same. All of the times that are reported come from curl's %{total_time} output. The results are sometimes different from the python socket stuff that is used in the python one, but I don't know that it is significant. I mean variations occur in every invocation of either one of the scripts. So just showing that they have different times doesn't prove much. Also I trust libcurl over some python socket lib anyways.

Code at the github, just a single bash script: http://github.com/bruenig/rankmirrors/tree/master

Edit: I misunderstood how -n was supposed to work. Fixed it.

Last edited by bruenig (2009-08-09 17:52:07)

Kiwi · 2009-08-08 06:02:45

^5

When I suggested you write it in bash I did not expect you to actually do it. Good job!

Hopefully the devs show it some love.

jelly · 2009-08-08 13:37:48

nice job breunig , it would be awesome if the script also checks how up to date the mirror is,

.:B:. · 2009-08-08 14:06:28

Nice bruenig .

hullap · 2009-08-08 15:46:11

nice work

Wintervenom · 2009-08-08 18:17:28

Words cannot describe the sheer awesomeness of this script.

Last edited by Wintervenom (2009-08-08 18:18:07)

fogobogo · 2009-08-08 20:31:55

just did pacman -Syu. why isnt it already there?!?!!

.:B:. · 2009-08-08 22:13:43

You brought the claque bruenig, didn't you?

bruenig · 2009-08-08 23:22:05

B wrote:

You brought the claque bruenig, didn't you?

These are all unsolicited opinions. No serious person would disagree.

jacko · 2009-08-10 03:21:51

Not bad for a web developer! it's a keeper

vote+1

Gen2ly · 2009-08-10 07:06:03

Very nice! This is a good idea... does it have a name?

Last edited by Gen2ly (2009-08-10 07:09:11)

bruenig · 2009-08-10 21:18:18

Gen2ly wrote:

Very nice! This is a good idea... does it have a name?

rankmirrors is its name, seeking to replace the existing one

Misfit138 · 2009-08-10 21:42:50

The python dependency always irked me just a bit....nice job!
Submitted to flyspray yet?

jelly · 2009-08-11 06:23:17

Misfit138 wrote:

The python dependency always irked me just a bit....nice job!
Submitted to flyspray yet?

That would be great and makes it more coreutils only.

Evanlec · 2009-09-19 00:16:37

Why not put this on AUR?

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