[SOLVED] Force user intervention on mirrorlists

gav616 · 2010-10-05 03:43:36

After every pacman update, a script (in the terminal) could be run to force the user to select good mirrors, to be placed into '/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist' i.e."Where are you from? select location from list >"

Sorting them by 'mirror status' would also help newbies very much.

This would solve a-lot of hassle for new players on arch when first using pacman, atleast after every update there guaranteed less hassle with up-to-date ranked mirrors queries..

Last edited by gav616 (2010-10-26 00:01:50)

Allan · 2010-10-05 03:46:07

Or we could not and expect our users to be able to simple things like that by themselves...

gav616 · 2010-10-05 03:49:18

Allan wrote:

Or we could not and expect our users to be able to simple things like that by themselves...

the point was just a little automated service after a pacman update, just to keep things simple.

Allan · 2010-10-05 04:26:28

Automation like this is not "simple" in the way Arch uses "Keep It Simple".

karol · 2010-10-05 10:23:12

If you need a reminder, you can make a script yourself.

gav616 · 2010-10-26 00:01:26

#!/bin/bash
wget -N -O /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.tmp "http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/?country=Great+Britain&use_mirror_status=on" ;
sed '/^#\S/ s|#||' -i /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.tmp ;
mv /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.tmp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist ;
pacman -Syy

I use this now.

btw, in bash how to you stop a script from continuing if a command fails

karol · 2010-10-26 00:21:45

gav616 wrote:

btw, in bash how to you stop a script from continuing if a command fails

command1 && command2

command2 will be executed only if command1 succeeds.

Arch Linux

#1 2010-10-05 03:43:36

[SOLVED] Force user intervention on mirrorlists

#2 2010-10-05 03:46:07

Re: [SOLVED] Force user intervention on mirrorlists

#3 2010-10-05 03:49:18

Re: [SOLVED] Force user intervention on mirrorlists

#4 2010-10-05 04:26:28

Re: [SOLVED] Force user intervention on mirrorlists

#5 2010-10-05 10:23:12

Re: [SOLVED] Force user intervention on mirrorlists

#6 2010-10-26 00:01:26

Re: [SOLVED] Force user intervention on mirrorlists

#7 2010-10-26 00:21:45

Re: [SOLVED] Force user intervention on mirrorlists

Board footer