Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format

[Jude DaShiell]

One of the more important fields missing from many Linux distros mirror 
lists is the geographical location field that would provide a country and 
a state/province for each mirror.  That information is stored in some data 
base on the internet, but not everybody who looks at a mirror list for the 
first time is necessarily going to know which tool to send the list 
through to get all those geographical locations appended to that mirror 
list.  A guess on my part would be the whois data base but what command to 
run to get the capacity the url, and the geographic locations out in a 
mirror list and only get that information I don't yet know.On Thu, 12 Aug 
2010, Jason Reardon wrote:

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Allan McRae <al...@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 13/08/10 07:09, Jason Reardon wrote:

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Erik Johnson<archt...@gmail.com>  wrote:

 Can you post a copy of the output? I'm using reflector and rankmirrors,
and
I get this:

# 2010-08-12 15:33
# generated by reflector
# ranked by rankmirrors
Server = ftp://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirror.yandex.ru/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server =


http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch


These are obviously not reachable URLs, but pacman fills in $repo and
$arch
from pacman.conf so it's working just fine for me.


On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Jason Reardon<aetherfl...@gmail.com

wrote:


 Worked for me on the latest mirrorlist release.

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Mathias Huber<hu...@mathiashuber.de

wrote:


 Dear Archers,

is it true that rankmirrors can't handle mirrorlist urls like
ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch?

While pacman works fine with this format, rankmirrors produces

unreachable

URLs.

Or am I misunderstanding something here?

Rock on,
Mathias






--

-Erik


 "For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to
persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." --Carl Sagan


Here's my first six. The gatech one didn't have a package at one point,
rankmirrors sorted the whole US list.

Server =

ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server =
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = ftp://lug.mtu.edu/archlinux/ftpfull/$repo/os/$arch
Server = ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/$repo/os/$arch



They are in alphabetical order...   This is known and fixed in git.  We
will probably make a new pacman release soon.

Allan





Hah, I never noticed.