FS#6727 - North American Mirrors
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Pacman
Opened by Real Name (Michel F) - Wednesday, 28 March 2007, 16:40 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Thursday, 29 March 2007, 08:09 GMT
Opened by Real Name (Michel F) - Wednesday, 28 March 2007, 16:40 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Thursday, 29 March 2007, 08:09 GMT
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The default mirror lists (/etc/pacman.d/*) should be updated
for North American mirrors:
1/ ftp.archlinux.org should not be on this list any longer since decision was taken to throttle it. At least it should not be the first (and therefore default) one. 2/ http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/linux/distributions/archlinux/extra/os/i686 has not been updated since May 2, 2006. Is it still valid? 3/ No connexion can be established with ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/extra/os/i686. Again, is it still valid? That only makes two usable mirrors for North America. Is it enough? |
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Closed by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Monday, 02 April 2007, 14:57 GMT
Reason for closing: None
Additional comments about closing: 1 - Won't implement
2 - Fixed
3 - Works for me
Monday, 02 April 2007, 14:57 GMT
Reason for closing: None
Additional comments about closing: 1 - Won't implement
2 - Fixed
3 - Works for me
So, with ftp.archlinux.org at the top users are almost forced to use rankmirrors. :P
2. It isn't in the default mirrorlist anymore, that is the best we can do.
3. I believe it is still valid, it may be due to overload.
According to posts on the forums, more North American mirrors may be on the way. We will add these as they become available.
1. I never read that rankmirrors was "mandatory". And if this is a feature, why not implement it properly :
- mirror selection and/or rankmirrors should be a mandatory step in the arch install cd. Like in many distros.
- and for those who installed arch long ago, at the time where intallation documentation did not talk about this, pacman should display a message if ftp.archlinux.org is the mirror used.
2. ok.
3. I did try several times this week and some months ago. Never been able to connect to this server.
However, upon installation of pacman 3, all users will see a message recommending they run rankmirrors. Rankmirrors was not available prior to this release (a sortmirrors script was, but it often did nasty things to your mirrorlist).
It would be nice to incorporate into the installer, this should be another feature request IF there is not one already.
1. in Roman's comment I read "users are almost forced to use rankmirrors" Hmm, mandatory, forced, what's the difference?
2. then stop providing artwork for any package. That's wasted time for the developpers.
2: Arch artwork is provided only with few packages (i.e. KDE has Arch splash, Gnome doen't, Xfce - yes but it's not default).
So:
1 - Won't Implement
2 - Fixed
3 - Requires Testing
:P
Please no OT here.