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DrCR

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Registered: 2007-10-08

Posts: 14

Is a missing man page a bug?

I just install reflector and there's no manual entry for it after doing so.

There appears to have been a man page for reflector in the past, based on this source (at about the 3:20 mark).

Last edited by DrCR (2011-04-12 20:42:00)

ilusi0n

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Registered: 2010-06-09

Posts: 187

Re: Is a missing man page a bug?

reflector --help

the sad clown

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From: 192.168.0.X

Registered: 2011-03-20

Posts: 837

Re: Is a missing man page a bug?

reflector --help

This will give you all the options with a brief description of them.

Here is my set up, selecting the top 10 synced mirrors from the US and ordering them according to speed:

reflector -l 10 -c United\ States --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Last edited by the sad clown (2011-04-12 21:32:49)

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ngoonee

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Re: Is a missing man page a bug?

Considering reflector has been re-written recently, the man page is most likely just not created yet. Highly unlikely there'd be a packaging bug on that package since the packager is also the author of the software.

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DrCR

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Re: Is a missing man page a bug?

Thanks for the responses, and I'm sorry I'm delayed in saying so.

It's an interesting app. I was already familiar with which mirrors work best for me in my local, so when I gave it a try it was interesting to see what mirrors it selected. One thing I noticed was all the mirrors it chose (top 5) where http. I wonder if the way the app works favours http over ftp.

ngoonee

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Re: Is a missing man page a bug?

Thanks for the responses, and I'm sorry I'm delayed in saying so.

It's an interesting app. I was already familiar with which mirrors work best for me in my local, so when I gave it a try it was interesting to see what mirrors it selected. One thing I noticed was all the mirrors it chose (top 5) where http. I wonder if the way the app works favours http over ftp.

You can ask Xyne, but in my experience the top 2 mirrors tend to be ftp....

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