FS#20312 - Rank Mirrors for the Pacman Mirrorlist Generator!

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by trusktr (trusktr) - Thursday, 29 July 2010, 10:22 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Thursday, 29 July 2010, 11:43 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Web Sites
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

It would be super nifty if the new Pacman Mirrorlist Generator on the website (archlinux.org/mirrorlist/) had rankmirror capabilities.

rankmirrors could rank ALL of the mirrors say once a week or once a month and store the entire list of ranked mirrors in a file on the server. Then, when someone requests servers for a region and HTTP/FTP, the script that outputs the new mirror list would simply match the servers to the ones in the ranked file and output a mirrorlist file with the servers in ranked order.

Currently, rankmirrors is broken due to the new pacman release so I can't use rankmirrors.

This would be an awesome addition to the new tool!
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Thursday, 29 July 2010, 11:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Thursday, 29 July 2010, 10:47 GMT
I have no real idea what you are asking for here? Run rank mirrors on the server and have it provide the mirrors in that order? That would be as bad as providing them in the current order for everybody not living near the server.
Comment by trusktr (trusktr) - Thursday, 29 July 2010, 10:54 GMT
Oh, gotcha. I forgot that it ranks based on the user's location. Nevermind then.

Anywho, i hope the rankmirrors script get's fixed soon to work with the new $arch variables.

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