Sort pacman mirrors

dtw · 2005-02-01 06:21:04

pacman.conf has a handy bit of advice for sorting your mirrors but its a frustratingly boring task, so i automated it, bit more cron-jobable now

#!/bin/bash

base=/etc/pacman.d

cd $base

# obviously you can add more to the array!
for dbase in {current,extra}
do
    echo "Sorting $dbase mirrors.  Please wait..."
    sortmirrors.pl <$base/$dbase >$base/$dbase.new
    mv $base/$dbase.new $base/$dbase
done

Spider.007 · 2005-02-01 12:10:59

what / where is sortmirrors.pl and why not use a simple `sort` call?

kumo · 2005-02-01 13:51:09

Cheers! One thing though people should install the netselect package first otherwise your "current" and "extra" files will be emptied.

mattux · 2005-02-01 18:27:17

@spider.007...
`sort` only do alphabetic... sortmirrors.pl try to find out the d/l speed and sort them...

mattux

dtw · 2005-02-02 13:37:12

as i said this expands on the note at the top of pacman.conf!

mercy · 2005-03-04 19:48:25

#!/bin/bash 

base=/etc/pacman.d 

cd $base 

# obviously you can add more to the array! 
for dbase in {current,extra}; do
   [ -f ${base}/${dbase}.orig ] || cp ${base}/${dbase}.orig;
   echo "Sorting $dbase mirrors.  Please wait...";
   sortmirrors.pl <${base}/${dbase}.orig >${base}/${dbase};
   cat ${base}/${dbase}.orig | egrep [^#] | sed 's/# The Extra Repository/# Just to keep em for emergency/' | sed 's/# CURRENT: Arch Linux core repository/# Just to keep em for emergency/' >> ${base}/${dbase};
done

sortmirror just leaves 3 mirrors.. id prefere something like that just to keep em if pacman cant reach those 3 (or find special pkgs on them)

Gullible Jones · 2005-03-04 20:53:13

I find that the easiest way to make Pacman faster is to just get rid of the iBiblio mirror in the pacman.d/* files... The other mirrors all seem pretty fast, but iBiblio seems to take forever to connect with (though it's fast once you're connected).

dtw · 2005-03-05 08:37:38

amusingly i just updated this script myself - it is also in a pkg in my repo:

#!/bin/bash
base=/etc/pacman.d
for dbase in {current,extra,testing,unstable} ; do
repotest=`cat /etc/pacman.conf | grep "$dbase"`
repotest=`echo $repotest | grep "#Include"`
if [ -z $repotest ] ; then
echo "Sorting $dbase mirrors. Please wait..."
sortmirrors.pl <$base/$dbase >$base/$dbase.new
cp -f $base/$dbase.new $base/$dbase
rm $base/$dbase.new
fi
done

Mercy, I don't really understand you bit about it "just leaves three mirrors"?

mercy · 2005-03-06 15:40:14

in the orig file containing the servers you got a list of 10+ per repository (atm at my windoze-box so i cant tell you exact numbers)

the sort mirror gives you the closest* three and throws the others away...

*according to ping-delays

zeppelin · 2005-03-06 16:34:41

sortmirros.pl and this job should go to WIKI plz

Xentac · 2005-03-06 20:23:39

sortmirrors.pl is already included in pacman.

dtw · 2005-03-07 06:09:53

Xentac - yeah but sortmirrors on it's own is crap - it's stupid - why include a script that does half the job when it could do the whole job? it's bizarre.

plus you need netselect - my package provides a "frontend" script for sortmirrors.pl and requires netselect so you get that dep in

(which i guess is why teh script isn't in pacman cos then pacman would depend on netselect, n'est pa?)

normc · 2005-03-07 23:48:23

I gave it a try. It works great, for current and extra, then I get
line 8: [: too many arguments

Shofs · 2005-06-08 22:36:49

For some reason I only have four severs listed in my pacman.d/* files. I am not sire why. Where can I get the original files, or could someone post them for me.

Thanks

cactus · 2005-06-08 22:40:32

pacman.d mirror files

Gullible Jones · 2005-06-09 01:24:53

From what I've seen, US (and probably Canadian) users should be able to use any mirror other than the ibiblio one without a problem. The ibiblio mirror has relatively low bandwidth and some irritating lag issues.

(This isn't really surprising, since it's the default mirror for the Extra repo.)

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Sort pacman mirrors

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