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

[Alejandro Hernández]

El 2016-10-02 01:57, IngeGNUe escribió:
> On 10/01/2016 07:55 PM, Alejandro Hernández wrote:
>> El 2016-10-02 00:15, Luke Shumaker escribió:
>>> On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 16:01:51 -0400,
>>> Alejandro Hernández wrote:
>>>>      "Parabola.nu" must go to independent end of their performance
>>>>      because it corresponds to our main server where the bandwidth
>>>>      we need to raise our packages and develop.
>>> 
>>> It doesn't really use much of our bandwidth anymore.  Unless you 
>>> stick
>>> ?noredirect at the end of the URL (which pacman doesn't do), then it
>>> redirects you to a mirror for package files.  The only thing it 
>>> serves
>>> directly is the .db files (and very new package files that have not
>>> yet been mirrored).
>>> 
>>> But I'm game for not shipping a static mirrorlist anymore.  Why not 
>>> do
>>> what Arch does?
>> 
>> 
>> Wow! You're right. I've found some arch info:
>> Mirrors:
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors
>> 
>> And 'Reflector' package. Script which can retrieve the latest mirror
>> list from the MirrorStatus web page, filter the most up-to-date 
>> mirrors,
>> sort them by speed and overwrite the file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist:
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reflector
>> 
>> And I've read that distributions like 'Bridge Linux' (Arch based)
>> incorporates 'reflector' into the update process by default. 😲 I think
>> that is what Parabola needs.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> 
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> 
> As I said, Parabola has it already. pacman -Ss reflector
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I do not mean that the user who use reflector. But it to be Parabola OS 
internally that uses 'reflector' each time it is needed to use the 
mirrorlist file. 😊