[Dev] [consensus][due: 2016-10-10] Script to obtain the optimized 'mirrorlist'

[IngeGNUe]

On 09/30/2016 04:01 PM, Alejandro Hernández wrote:
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> Therefore, it should be created a script that obtains the information
> from the web https://www.parabola.nu/mirrorlist/ and then apply the
> additional custom criteria for obtaining file 'mirrorlist'. And that
> will run periodically (daily?). [SCRIPT TO OBTAIN THE OPTIMIZED
> 'MIRRORLIST']
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> Thanks.
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You can do this with the reflector package (script) and even create a
bash alias in your .bashrc for quick mirror list updating. For example:

alias mirr='sudo reflector --verbose --sort rate --save
/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist'