HOWTO rank mirrors in ArchLinux
# pacman -Sy python
[sync the db and install python]
# mv /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirror-source
# vi /etc/pacman.d/mirror-source
[remove # before 'Server=' from the Europe servers]
# rankmirrors /etc/pacman.d/mirror-source > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# pacman -Syu [sync the db and upgrade the whole system]

2 Comments:
Hey thanks! I come back to this page every time I reinstall Arch.
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R-Whited, at May 2, 2009 at 9:34 PM
this is a very good article, slim and eficient
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Unknown, at June 5, 2009 at 9:46 PM
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