[arch] Updated /etc/pacman.d lists?

[Eric Belanger]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Marco Louter wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 09:09:35PM +0100, Tom K wrote:
> > Those files are installed as part of the pacman package, so if you have
> > pacman 2.9.8, you have the most up-to-date lists. It's possible they
> > were installed on your system with the .pacnew extension, if you had
> > changed the mirror order in an earlier version.
> >
> > At the moment, there are two .nl servers in the list, nluug.nl and
> > surfnet.nl, and various others in neighbouring countries.
> >
> I put the two .nl server at the top of the current and extra files, it
> seems that they are terribly out of sync. Now I'm using belnet from our
> good Belgium friends ;-)
> > If you find servers that aren't working, it would probably be a good
> > idea to contact whoever's running them - they may be unaware of the problem.
> I already found two servers, antesis.org and rez-gif.supelec.fr that are
> not working. But I will stick to using belnet for now.
>

You can check:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirror
for mirrors. It contains some mirror which are not in the pacman lists.
The US mirror of http://mirror.cs.vt.edu is fast and up-to-date.

Eric

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