Difference between revisions of "Manjaro Mirrors"
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There is a file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist which lists all of the available mirrors. | There is a file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist which lists all of the available mirrors. | ||
There is another file called /etc/pacman-mirrors.conf that by default is configured to re-write your mirrorlist in a list with the fastest at the top, descending to the slowest, when the system is given the | There is another file called /etc/pacman-mirrors.conf that by default is configured to re-write your mirrorlist in a list with the fastest at the top, descending to the slowest, when the system is given the terminal command: | ||
sudo pacman-mirrors -g | sudo pacman-mirrors -g | ||
However this command does '''NOT''' guarantee you have an '''up-to-date mirrors''. | |||
The recommended and preferred way to ensure you get a mirrorlist which has up-to-date mirrors is to always use the '''-f{number}''' argument | |||
sudo pacman-mirrors -f10 | |||
This is a remarkably streamlined system compared to the ways that it has been in the past for the pacman rolling release system to manage its mirrors, let alone to rank their speed. | This is a remarkably streamlined system compared to the ways that it has been in the past for the pacman rolling release system to manage its mirrors, let alone to rank their speed. | ||
=How do we get more mirrors?= | =How do we get more mirrors?= | ||