Comments on: Using rankmirrors script for faster Arch Linux package downloads

By: Treasa W.

Treasa W. — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 02:56:37 +0000

Thank you for sharing this code. It definitely works! Helped me speed up our repository mirrors at the office.

By: Guy

Guy — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:54:40 +0000

Excellent. Total newbie to Arch and this allowed me to update to KDE4.4, before I wasn’t getting the right mirrors.
Nice one!

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By: bigpresh

bigpresh — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:51:37 +0000

@fred

Glad you found it useful. You can put it in a shell script and run that, or if you want you can just run it directly (paste it into a terminal and it should do the trick).

A worthwhile improvement would be to include a step that outputs the name of the repository being processed at the moment so you can see how it’s getting on – I’ll edit the post with that in a second.

By: fred

fred — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:36:41 +0000

thanks! thats awesome! i got python to run rankmirrors… but wasn’t sure how to speet up the stuff. anyway, am i right that you just take that and put it in a script.sh and run it in a terminal?

thnx