Matteo Michelini

Thursday, November 13, 2008

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]

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