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

2010-08-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
The only reason I bought this up at all was because on more than one Linux distro site there's requests for people to use mirrors that are geographically close to them since the admins of those sites apparently check logs and kick off people that are very far away from the download sites. I ag

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

2010-08-14 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > 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 int

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

2010-08-14 Thread 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

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

2010-08-12 Thread Jason Reardon
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 13/08/10 07:09, Jason Reardon wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Erik Johnson wrote: >> >> Can you post a copy of the output? I'm using reflector and rankmirrors, >>> and >>> I get this: >>> >>> # 2010-08-12 15:33 >>> # generate

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

2010-08-12 Thread Allan McRae
On 13/08/10 07:09, Jason Reardon wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Erik Johnson 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/archli

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

2010-08-12 Thread Jason Reardon
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Erik Johnson 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 =

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

2010-08-12 Thread Mathias Huber
Hi Erik, 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 =

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

2010-08-12 Thread Erik Johnson
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://arch

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

2010-08-12 Thread Jason Reardon
Worked for me on the latest mirrorlist release. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Mathias Huber 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, rankmi

[arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format

2010-08-12 Thread Mathias Huber
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