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ctown.myth

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Registered: 2010-02-10

Posts: 169

KDE 4.4 Mirrors

Hi all,

Been using Arch for a while now, just haven't needed to ask anyone for directions yet.

I know that this was a hot topic yesterday, but I think I've waited long enough. The mirrors that I currently use (Waterloo, Canada and Virgina Tech, US) haven't even updated any one of their packages to KDE 4.4; also kernel.org is still missing the akonadi package. I don't really want to use the archlinux.org server and hog bandwith if any of the other mirrors are updating.

Are there any people getting the update who live in western Canada? If so, which mirror did you use?

Thanks!

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thestinger

Package Maintainer (PM)

From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 478

Re: KDE 4.4 Mirrors

I live in Toronto so I use the Waterloo server all the time (mmm 1700KB/s) but I can't stand the rate it syncs at (waiting 2 days for upgrades? pfft) so I just use it for installing new software most of the time.

You should install reflector and try something like:

reflector --latest 10 -r > outputfile

that will get you the 15 most up-to-date mirrors and rank them by speed, which should get you what you need.

Last edited by thestinger (2010-02-10 17:32:36)

makrin

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Registered: 2009-06-09

Posts: 5

Re: KDE 4.4 Mirrors

You can check on
https://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html

ctown.myth

Member

Registered: 2010-02-10

Posts: 169

Re: KDE 4.4 Mirrors

I live in Toronto so I use the Waterloo server all the time (mmm 1700KB/s) but I can't stand the rate it syncs at (waiting 2 days for upgrades? pfft) so I just use it for installing new software most of the time.

You should install reflector and try something like:

reflector --latest 10 -r > outputfile

that will get you the 15 most up-to-date mirrors and rank them by speed, which should get you what you need.

Thanks, but it still only returned kernel.org, the rest were overseas. I'll try updating from there, but it looks like I'd have to remove kdepim for now.

You can check on
https://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html

I looked at it last night, and was utterly confused by it, reflector is much easier.

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makrin

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Registered: 2009-06-09

Posts: 5

Re: KDE 4.4 Mirrors

COOL!
I didn't know about the reflector script

Snakeye

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From: Surrey BC

Registered: 2009-12-19

Posts: 91

Re: KDE 4.4 Mirrors

I have problems with the Waterloo mirror as well. I contacted the guy who setup that mirror originally and he said they use an upstream mirror (http://mirror.rit.edu/) which has staleness issues. He was going to look into finding a better upstream mirror. Let's hope he finds one .

andamaru

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Registered: 2008-08-30

Posts: 10

Re: KDE 4.4 Mirrors

I came here to say the same thing, waterloo mirror was what turned me off arch. I thought they had broken mirrors and mismatched packages. I'm glad waterloo club is looking for a better host.