Michael M. wrote: > On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 11:10 -0400, Dan McGee wrote: > >> On 4/1/07, Michael M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Unfortunately, I had a problem afterwards. I installed 'gnome' and it >>> went *very* slowly. It took hours to download all the packages. I'm >>> guessing the mirrors are being hit hard by the new release. I didn't >>> change any of the defaults in pacman.conf. I remember seeing a message >>> not long ago, here or from the Planet Arch RSS feed, about too many >>> users using a particular mirror or something, so I didn't want to monkey >>> around with anything and mess things up further. Anyway, I went to bed >>> so I haven't really done much with Arch yet except get it installed, >>> which is a good enough accomplishment for one day anyway. I'll try >>> again later on and see if things improve. I don't have time right now >>> to play around with it. >>> >> Your mistake was not changing the mirror list. ftp.archlinux.org is >> currently throttled, leading to the slowness of your downloads. You >> may want to try moving another mirror to the top and searching again, >> or using the "rankmirrors" script (search the forums for references). >> > > I've moved the second mirror on the list to the top and get better > speeds with it. It didn't, as of Sunday evening US Pacific DST, seem to > be synced yet with ftp.archlinux.org because pacman spit out a long list > of packages (all the Gnome packages I had already installed) that were > newer on my system than in the repository. I guess it will catch up > shortly. > > I have to say, I don't understand the rationale behind providing users > who newly install Arch Linux with a default server that is throttled so > drastically. That's not exactly a nice introduction to Arch. I think > most users, especially those new to Arch, will presume that a brand new > install will be set up properly with regard to how pacman works and > where it connects at the outset. If the powers that be don't want > people using ftp.archlinux.org, then why make it the default? I trusted > that the devs would have set things up as they need in order best to > manage the resources at Arch's disposal. It concerns me that this was a > "mistake" on my part. IMO, users should be warned the first time they > run pacman that they need to edit the mirror list to avoid ending up on > a throttled server; failing that, it should be the very first item on > the post-install to-do's. > > > easynews has a great mirror...
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