[arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format

[Allan McRae]

On 13/08/10 07:09, Jason Reardon wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Erik Johnson<archtaku at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Can you post a copy of the output? I'm using reflector and rankmirrors, and
>> I get this:
>>
>> # 2010-08-12 15:33
>> # generated by reflector
>> # ranked by rankmirrors
>> Server = ftp://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
>> Server = ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
>> Server = http://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/$repo/os/$arch
>> Server = http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
>> Server = http://mirror.yandex.ru/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
>> Server =
>>
>> http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
>>
>>
>> These are obviously not reachable URLs, but pacman fills in $repo and $arch
>> from pacman.conf so it's working just fine for me.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Jason Reardon<aetherfly87 at gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> Worked for me on the latest mirrorlist release.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Mathias Huber<huber at mathiashuber.de
>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Archers,
>>>>
>>>> is it true that rankmirrors can't handle mirrorlist urls like
>>>> ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch?
>>>>
>>>> While pacman works fine with this format, rankmirrors produces
>>> unreachable
>>>> URLs.
>>>>
>>>> Or am I misunderstanding something here?
>>>>
>>>> Rock on,
>>>> Mathias
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> -Erik
>>
>>
>>   "For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to
>> persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." --Carl Sagan
>>
>
> Here's my first six. The gatech one didn't have a package at one point,
> rankmirrors sorted the whole US list.
>
> Server =
> ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
> Server = ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
> Server = ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
> Server = ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
> Server = ftp://lug.mtu.edu/archlinux/ftpfull/$repo/os/$arch
> Server = ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/$repo/os/$arch
>
>

They are in alphabetical order...   This is known and fixed in git.  We 
will probably make a new pacman release soon.

Allan