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binskipy2u

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Pacman, reflector & mirror list question (seems SOLVED from responses)

When i update mirrors from the home page.. all the mirrors are commented out.. I save it as mirrorlist
then run the reflector command..

does it ONLY rank the number of mirrors i ask for in the United States.. or mirrors right down the list that ive copied and pasted in mirror list??

the reason I ask.. cause i opened up the mirrorlist that got ranked by reflector and 2 of them are from Brazil... and not even in the US list..
should I just copy the US mirrors, then run reflector??
am i doing something wrong??

i dont want to get strange, incompatable packages... I hope I'm asking this correctly..
and when i used to update pacman -Syyu.. it happened in seconds..now it takes almost a min (not that this is alot of time, but its slower then it ever was) and it's only updating via 5 mirrors from the reflector command..

so should i only copy the US mirrors into mirrorlist then run reflector or copy entire mirror list then run reflector..
whats the best way?
dont want to screw up my system
thanks

Last edited by binskipy2u (2010-07-21 18:24:31)

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Pacman, reflector & mirror list question (seems SOLVED from responses)

I'm not sure if the app / service is working OK atm. I'd say it's not your fault.

> dont want to screw up my system
I don't thnk you can crash&burn it this way. It's just a list of mirrors.

Last edited by karol (2010-07-21 15:40:21)

binskipy2u

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Re: Pacman, reflector & mirror list question (seems SOLVED from responses)

i did find the option to pick mirrors from your region, copied and pasted them into mirrorlist and then ran the reflector command.. hope this is the best way to do it.. thanks for your quick response

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SanskritFritz

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Registered: 2009-01-08

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Re: Pacman, reflector & mirror list question (seems SOLVED from responses)

The status of rankmirrors at the moment:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=100488

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anonymous_user

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Re: Pacman, reflector & mirror list question (seems SOLVED from responses)

Afaik reflector chooses among all mirrors, not your list. Secondly you can use reflector's -r flag to rank your mirrors. I would not worry if the servers are not from the US.

Last edited by anonymous_user (2010-07-21 17:32:42)

SanskritFritz

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Re: Pacman, reflector & mirror list question (seems SOLVED from responses)

Afaik reflector chooses among all mirrors, not your list.

That is correct.

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binskipy2u

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Re: Pacman, reflector & mirror list question (seems SOLVED from responses)

Sanskritfritz.. i see you like "fireproof" check out "to save a life" from 2009
GREAT movie

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SanskritFritz

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Re: Pacman, reflector & mirror list question (seems SOLVED from responses)

Thanks for the tip, i'll check it out.

UPDATE: you were right, it is indeed an outstanding movie, thanks again.

Last edited by SanskritFritz (2010-07-30 22:16:47)

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